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George I first arrived in Philadelphia in 1767 and migrated to Virginia in 1778 where he married Catherine Myers (1756-1826). They originally took up residence in Shenandoah County, but moved to Augusta County by the early spring of 1790. They had four children including an only son, George Barnhart II (1778-1857).","George II married Polly Barnett (1785-1859) of Fairfield, Virginia. They went on to have four children including an eldest son, Gideon Barnhart (1814-1892) who married Martha Ann Weade (1825-1917) on March 13, 1845. Gideon was elected Captain of the 1st Battalion, 32nd., Regiment of Virginia in 1843 and held that position for seven years. At the outset of the Civil War, Gideon would likely have been too old to report for active duty. However, evidence suggests that Gideon was a private in Company A, 3rd. Battalion Valley Reserves and mustered in April 23, 1864. Gideon and Martha Barnhart had five children, four of whom lived into adulthood. Their son Henry George Barnhart (1860-1915) married Fannie Ann Gentry (1859-1917) and the couple went on to have seven children.","Materials relating to many of the aforementioned Barnharts and their children and grandchildren can be found in this collection.","The materials within this collection originally comprised part of lot 177 of Jeffrey Evans \u0026 Associates' November 12, 2016 Americana \u0026 Fine Antiques sale. Jeffrey Evans' provenance note indicates that the materials originated from a private Shenandoah Valley of Virginia collection.","This collection was originally housed in a photo album with most documents placed in Mylar sleeves. The materials were without a clear arrangement scheme. The archivist removed the documents from the album and imposed an artificial arrangement based on person or group of persons.","Barnhart family papers, 1832-1963, Accession #11264, Special Collections Dept., University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville, Va.","The Barnhart Family Papers, 1836-1944, are comprised of assorted documents chiefly relating to the Barnhart family of New Hope, Virginia in Augusta County, particularly George Barnhart II and his son Gideon Barnhart. Materials include correspondence, bills, receipts and invoices, deeds, and envelopes. The collection also includes many documents concerning the estate of George Barnhart II. There are also materials within this collection pertaining to persons not directly related to the Barnharts.","Papers relating to George Barnhart II chiefly comprise estate documents, specifically lists of property sold by the administrators of George II's estate in April 1857. Types of items sold from George II's estate include sundry household items, farm implements, and livestock. His widow Polly and son Gideon are listed as buyers of multiple items. There are several variations of the list of property sold, though they all appear to date to April 1857. Additional materials include receipts, financial accounts, and a deed between George II and Polly and their son Gideon for a tract of land on the south side of Round Hill.","Papers specifically relating to Polly Barnhart include financial and estate documents. Of particular interest is a document dated April 25, 1857 in which Polly Barnhart grants power of attorney to her son Gideon. In this role, Gideon was to attend to his mother's interests in the estate of the recently deceased Lydia Barnett, likely Polly's sister. Two documents relate to George II's estate. One document, written on behalf of her children, allows Polly to take whatever property she wants from her husband's estate. The second document, written on behalf of Polly, surrenders all but one fourth share in the estate. She elects to divide the estate with her three living children.","The Gideon Barnhart papers include financial documents and accounts, receipts, and correspondence. Included is an August 2, 1837 letter to Gideon from his cousin Nancy Cullen (1819-1910) in Holland Grove, Illinois. Earlier that year, Gideon spent time traveling back home from Illinois where he visited with his Uncle John P. Cullen and his family. Nancy's expresses pleasure that Gideon has arrived safely home. She provides updates on the happenings in Holland Grove. Of particular interest is a document that evidence suggests is a love letter from Gideon Barnhart to Martha Ann Weade. It is dated June 3, 1844 and was written less than one year before their marriage. The letter is only addressed \"Dear Miss,\" but within the body of the letter, the author, presumably Gideon, writes: \"[I] am pleading my own cause Miss Marth when I think of the pleasant hours I have spent with you I must conclude there is yet thousand more yet unspent.\" He goes on: \"I turn over one page and take the liberty of asking you whither my future visits will meet with your approbation not only as a parcial visitor but one who is trying to clime to the top of the top of the matrimonial chain. I do not wish to flatter you by saying to you your beautiful features and sparkling eyes rosey cheaks and prattling toung have left impressions uppon my mind.\" Lastly, this folder includes an April 17, 1857 document in which Gideon Barnhart purchases from the estate of George Barnhart a \"negro Man Nathan\" for the amount of $550.00. Several of Gideon's documents, including the love letter presumably penned by him to Martha Ann Weade, exhibit evidence of his signature having been clipped.","One folder contains documents relating to other Barnhart family members excluding George II, Polly, and Gideon. Materials include correspondence, financial documents, and empty envelopes. Persons featured in these documents William F. Cullen, son-in-law of George Barnhart I, Henry George Barnhart, Walter W. Barnhart, George Gray Barnhart, and Laura Ruth Barnhart.","Lastly, all other documents seemingly unrelated to the Barnhart Family are housed in one folder. These items include accounts between a Mr. Whitmore and Philadelphia merchants Schaffer \u0026 Roberts and Inskeep, Molten \u0026 Woodruff; a letter from W. H. Carrington to his uncle James Smallwood of South River in Augusta County; two letters penned by Francis Sigler of Indiana; a letter penned by Louisa D. Clagett; a family record outlining Clagett family marriages, births and deaths; and other miscellaneous papers and financial documents.","The copyright interests in this collection have been transferred to the James Madison University Special Collections Library. For more information, contact the Special Collections Library Reference Desk (library-special@jmu.edu).","The Barnhart Family Papers, 1836-1944, is comprised of assorted documents chiefly relating to the Barnhart family of New Hope, Virginia in Augusta County, particularly George Barnhart II and his son Gideon Barnhart. Materials include correspondence, bills, receipts and invoices, deeds, and envelopes. The collection also includes many documents concerning the estate of George Barnhart II. 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At the outset of the Civil War, Gideon would likely have been too old to report for active duty. However, evidence suggests that Gideon was a private in Company A, 3rd. Battalion Valley Reserves and mustered in April 23, 1864. Gideon and Martha Barnhart had five children, four of whom lived into adulthood. Their son Henry George Barnhart (1860-1915) married Fannie Ann Gentry (1859-1917) and the couple went on to have seven children.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eMaterials relating to many of the aforementioned Barnharts and their children and grandchildren can be found in this collection.\u003c/p\u003e"],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Bio/Historical Note"],"bioghist_tesim":["The Barnharts of Augusta County, Virginia descended from German immigrant John George Barnhart (1748-1832), also referred to as George Barnhart I. George I first arrived in Philadelphia in 1767 and migrated to Virginia in 1778 where he married Catherine Myers (1756-1826). They originally took up residence in Shenandoah County, but moved to Augusta County by the early spring of 1790. They had four children including an only son, George Barnhart II (1778-1857).","George II married Polly Barnett (1785-1859) of Fairfield, Virginia. They went on to have four children including an eldest son, Gideon Barnhart (1814-1892) who married Martha Ann Weade (1825-1917) on March 13, 1845. Gideon was elected Captain of the 1st Battalion, 32nd., Regiment of Virginia in 1843 and held that position for seven years. At the outset of the Civil War, Gideon would likely have been too old to report for active duty. However, evidence suggests that Gideon was a private in Company A, 3rd. Battalion Valley Reserves and mustered in April 23, 1864. Gideon and Martha Barnhart had five children, four of whom lived into adulthood. Their son Henry George Barnhart (1860-1915) married Fannie Ann Gentry (1859-1917) and the couple went on to have seven children.","Materials relating to many of the aforementioned Barnharts and their children and grandchildren can be found in this collection."],"custodhist_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe materials within this collection originally comprised part of lot 177 of Jeffrey Evans \u0026amp; Associates' November 12, 2016 Americana \u0026amp; Fine Antiques sale. Jeffrey Evans' provenance note indicates that the materials originated from a private Shenandoah Valley of Virginia collection.\u003c/p\u003e"],"custodhist_heading_ssm":["Provenance"],"custodhist_tesim":["The materials within this collection originally comprised part of lot 177 of Jeffrey Evans \u0026 Associates' November 12, 2016 Americana \u0026 Fine Antiques sale. 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The letter is only addressed \"Dear Miss,\" but within the body of the letter, the author, presumably Gideon, writes: \"[I] am pleading my own cause Miss Marth when I think of the pleasant hours I have spent with you I must conclude there is yet thousand more yet unspent.\" He goes on: \"I turn over one page and take the liberty of asking you whither my future visits will meet with your approbation not only as a parcial visitor but one who is trying to clime to the top of the top of the matrimonial chain. I do not wish to flatter you by saying to you your beautiful features and sparkling eyes rosey cheaks and prattling toung have left impressions uppon my mind.\" Lastly, this folder includes an April 17, 1857 document in which Gideon Barnhart purchases from the estate of George Barnhart a \"negro Man Nathan\" for the amount of $550.00. 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Carrington to his uncle James Smallwood of South River in Augusta County; two letters penned by Francis Sigler of Indiana; a letter penned by Louisa D. Clagett; a family record outlining Clagett family marriages, births and deaths; and other miscellaneous papers and financial documents.\u003c/p\u003e"],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Content"],"scopecontent_tesim":["The Barnhart Family Papers, 1836-1944, are comprised of assorted documents chiefly relating to the Barnhart family of New Hope, Virginia in Augusta County, particularly George Barnhart II and his son Gideon Barnhart. Materials include correspondence, bills, receipts and invoices, deeds, and envelopes. The collection also includes many documents concerning the estate of George Barnhart II. There are also materials within this collection pertaining to persons not directly related to the Barnharts.","Papers relating to George Barnhart II chiefly comprise estate documents, specifically lists of property sold by the administrators of George II's estate in April 1857. Types of items sold from George II's estate include sundry household items, farm implements, and livestock. His widow Polly and son Gideon are listed as buyers of multiple items. There are several variations of the list of property sold, though they all appear to date to April 1857. Additional materials include receipts, financial accounts, and a deed between George II and Polly and their son Gideon for a tract of land on the south side of Round Hill.","Papers specifically relating to Polly Barnhart include financial and estate documents. Of particular interest is a document dated April 25, 1857 in which Polly Barnhart grants power of attorney to her son Gideon. In this role, Gideon was to attend to his mother's interests in the estate of the recently deceased Lydia Barnett, likely Polly's sister. Two documents relate to George II's estate. One document, written on behalf of her children, allows Polly to take whatever property she wants from her husband's estate. The second document, written on behalf of Polly, surrenders all but one fourth share in the estate. She elects to divide the estate with her three living children.","The Gideon Barnhart papers include financial documents and accounts, receipts, and correspondence. Included is an August 2, 1837 letter to Gideon from his cousin Nancy Cullen (1819-1910) in Holland Grove, Illinois. Earlier that year, Gideon spent time traveling back home from Illinois where he visited with his Uncle John P. Cullen and his family. Nancy's expresses pleasure that Gideon has arrived safely home. She provides updates on the happenings in Holland Grove. Of particular interest is a document that evidence suggests is a love letter from Gideon Barnhart to Martha Ann Weade. It is dated June 3, 1844 and was written less than one year before their marriage. The letter is only addressed \"Dear Miss,\" but within the body of the letter, the author, presumably Gideon, writes: \"[I] am pleading my own cause Miss Marth when I think of the pleasant hours I have spent with you I must conclude there is yet thousand more yet unspent.\" He goes on: \"I turn over one page and take the liberty of asking you whither my future visits will meet with your approbation not only as a parcial visitor but one who is trying to clime to the top of the top of the matrimonial chain. I do not wish to flatter you by saying to you your beautiful features and sparkling eyes rosey cheaks and prattling toung have left impressions uppon my mind.\" Lastly, this folder includes an April 17, 1857 document in which Gideon Barnhart purchases from the estate of George Barnhart a \"negro Man Nathan\" for the amount of $550.00. Several of Gideon's documents, including the love letter presumably penned by him to Martha Ann Weade, exhibit evidence of his signature having been clipped.","One folder contains documents relating to other Barnhart family members excluding George II, Polly, and Gideon. Materials include correspondence, financial documents, and empty envelopes. Persons featured in these documents William F. Cullen, son-in-law of George Barnhart I, Henry George Barnhart, Walter W. Barnhart, George Gray Barnhart, and Laura Ruth Barnhart.","Lastly, all other documents seemingly unrelated to the Barnhart Family are housed in one folder. These items include accounts between a Mr. Whitmore and Philadelphia merchants Schaffer \u0026 Roberts and Inskeep, Molten \u0026 Woodruff; a letter from W. H. Carrington to his uncle James Smallwood of South River in Augusta County; two letters penned by Francis Sigler of Indiana; a letter penned by Louisa D. Clagett; a family record outlining Clagett family marriages, births and deaths; and other miscellaneous papers and financial documents."],"userestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe copyright interests in this collection have been transferred to the James Madison University Special Collections Library. For more information, contact the Special Collections Library Reference Desk (library-special@jmu.edu).\u003c/p\u003e"],"userestrict_heading_ssm":["Use Restrictions"],"userestrict_tesim":["The copyright interests in this collection have been transferred to the James Madison University Special Collections Library. For more information, contact the Special Collections Library Reference Desk (library-special@jmu.edu)."],"abstract_html_tesm":["\u003cabstract id=\"aspace_d276bcbc8c1113ce2aaca6b841892a60\"\u003eThe Barnhart Family Papers, 1836-1944, is comprised of assorted documents chiefly relating to the Barnhart family of New Hope, Virginia in Augusta County, particularly George Barnhart II and his son Gideon Barnhart. Materials include correspondence, bills, receipts and invoices, deeds, and envelopes. The collection also includes many documents concerning the estate of George Barnhart II. There are also materials within this collection pertaining to persons not directly related to the Barnharts.\u003c/abstract\u003e"],"abstract_tesim":["The Barnhart Family Papers, 1836-1944, is comprised of assorted documents chiefly relating to the Barnhart family of New Hope, Virginia in Augusta County, particularly George Barnhart II and his son Gideon Barnhart. Materials include correspondence, bills, receipts and invoices, deeds, and envelopes. The collection also includes many documents concerning the estate of George Barnhart II. There are also materials within this collection pertaining to persons not directly related to the Barnharts."],"names_ssim":["James Madison University Libraries Special Collections","Barnhart family"],"corpname_ssim":["James Madison University Libraries Special Collections"],"famname_ssim":["Barnhart family"],"language_ssim":["English"],"descrules_ssm":["Describing Archives: A Content Standard"],"total_component_count_is":5,"online_item_count_is":0,"component_level_isim":[0],"sort_isi":0,"timestamp":"2026-05-21T00:25:48.758Z","collection":{"numFound":1,"start":0,"numFoundExact":true,"docs":[{"id":"vihart_repositories_4_resources_390","ead_ssi":"vihart_repositories_4_resources_390","_root_":"vihart_repositories_4_resources_390","_nest_parent_":"vihart_repositories_4_resources_390","ead_source_url_ssi":"data/oai/JMU/repositories_4_resources_390.xml","title_ssm":["Barnhart Family Papers"],"title_tesim":["Barnhart Family Papers"],"unitdate_ssm":["1836-1944"],"unitdate_inclusive_ssm":["1836-1944"],"level_ssm":["collection"],"level_ssim":["Collection"],"unitid_ssm":["SC 0237","/repositories/4/resources/390"],"text":["SC 0237","/repositories/4/resources/390","Barnhart Family Papers","Augusta County (Va.) -- History","Augusta County (Va.) -- Genealogy","Augusta County (Va.) -- Social life and customs","Shenandoah River Valley (Va. and W. 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George I first arrived in Philadelphia in 1767 and migrated to Virginia in 1778 where he married Catherine Myers (1756-1826). They originally took up residence in Shenandoah County, but moved to Augusta County by the early spring of 1790. They had four children including an only son, George Barnhart II (1778-1857).","George II married Polly Barnett (1785-1859) of Fairfield, Virginia. They went on to have four children including an eldest son, Gideon Barnhart (1814-1892) who married Martha Ann Weade (1825-1917) on March 13, 1845. Gideon was elected Captain of the 1st Battalion, 32nd., Regiment of Virginia in 1843 and held that position for seven years. At the outset of the Civil War, Gideon would likely have been too old to report for active duty. However, evidence suggests that Gideon was a private in Company A, 3rd. Battalion Valley Reserves and mustered in April 23, 1864. Gideon and Martha Barnhart had five children, four of whom lived into adulthood. Their son Henry George Barnhart (1860-1915) married Fannie Ann Gentry (1859-1917) and the couple went on to have seven children.","Materials relating to many of the aforementioned Barnharts and their children and grandchildren can be found in this collection.","The materials within this collection originally comprised part of lot 177 of Jeffrey Evans \u0026 Associates' November 12, 2016 Americana \u0026 Fine Antiques sale. Jeffrey Evans' provenance note indicates that the materials originated from a private Shenandoah Valley of Virginia collection.","This collection was originally housed in a photo album with most documents placed in Mylar sleeves. The materials were without a clear arrangement scheme. The archivist removed the documents from the album and imposed an artificial arrangement based on person or group of persons.","Barnhart family papers, 1832-1963, Accession #11264, Special Collections Dept., University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville, Va.","The Barnhart Family Papers, 1836-1944, are comprised of assorted documents chiefly relating to the Barnhart family of New Hope, Virginia in Augusta County, particularly George Barnhart II and his son Gideon Barnhart. Materials include correspondence, bills, receipts and invoices, deeds, and envelopes. The collection also includes many documents concerning the estate of George Barnhart II. There are also materials within this collection pertaining to persons not directly related to the Barnharts.","Papers relating to George Barnhart II chiefly comprise estate documents, specifically lists of property sold by the administrators of George II's estate in April 1857. Types of items sold from George II's estate include sundry household items, farm implements, and livestock. His widow Polly and son Gideon are listed as buyers of multiple items. There are several variations of the list of property sold, though they all appear to date to April 1857. Additional materials include receipts, financial accounts, and a deed between George II and Polly and their son Gideon for a tract of land on the south side of Round Hill.","Papers specifically relating to Polly Barnhart include financial and estate documents. Of particular interest is a document dated April 25, 1857 in which Polly Barnhart grants power of attorney to her son Gideon. In this role, Gideon was to attend to his mother's interests in the estate of the recently deceased Lydia Barnett, likely Polly's sister. Two documents relate to George II's estate. One document, written on behalf of her children, allows Polly to take whatever property she wants from her husband's estate. The second document, written on behalf of Polly, surrenders all but one fourth share in the estate. She elects to divide the estate with her three living children.","The Gideon Barnhart papers include financial documents and accounts, receipts, and correspondence. Included is an August 2, 1837 letter to Gideon from his cousin Nancy Cullen (1819-1910) in Holland Grove, Illinois. Earlier that year, Gideon spent time traveling back home from Illinois where he visited with his Uncle John P. Cullen and his family. Nancy's expresses pleasure that Gideon has arrived safely home. She provides updates on the happenings in Holland Grove. Of particular interest is a document that evidence suggests is a love letter from Gideon Barnhart to Martha Ann Weade. It is dated June 3, 1844 and was written less than one year before their marriage. The letter is only addressed \"Dear Miss,\" but within the body of the letter, the author, presumably Gideon, writes: \"[I] am pleading my own cause Miss Marth when I think of the pleasant hours I have spent with you I must conclude there is yet thousand more yet unspent.\" He goes on: \"I turn over one page and take the liberty of asking you whither my future visits will meet with your approbation not only as a parcial visitor but one who is trying to clime to the top of the top of the matrimonial chain. I do not wish to flatter you by saying to you your beautiful features and sparkling eyes rosey cheaks and prattling toung have left impressions uppon my mind.\" Lastly, this folder includes an April 17, 1857 document in which Gideon Barnhart purchases from the estate of George Barnhart a \"negro Man Nathan\" for the amount of $550.00. Several of Gideon's documents, including the love letter presumably penned by him to Martha Ann Weade, exhibit evidence of his signature having been clipped.","One folder contains documents relating to other Barnhart family members excluding George II, Polly, and Gideon. Materials include correspondence, financial documents, and empty envelopes. Persons featured in these documents William F. Cullen, son-in-law of George Barnhart I, Henry George Barnhart, Walter W. Barnhart, George Gray Barnhart, and Laura Ruth Barnhart.","Lastly, all other documents seemingly unrelated to the Barnhart Family are housed in one folder. These items include accounts between a Mr. Whitmore and Philadelphia merchants Schaffer \u0026 Roberts and Inskeep, Molten \u0026 Woodruff; a letter from W. H. Carrington to his uncle James Smallwood of South River in Augusta County; two letters penned by Francis Sigler of Indiana; a letter penned by Louisa D. Clagett; a family record outlining Clagett family marriages, births and deaths; and other miscellaneous papers and financial documents.","The copyright interests in this collection have been transferred to the James Madison University Special Collections Library. For more information, contact the Special Collections Library Reference Desk (library-special@jmu.edu).","The Barnhart Family Papers, 1836-1944, is comprised of assorted documents chiefly relating to the Barnhart family of New Hope, Virginia in Augusta County, particularly George Barnhart II and his son Gideon Barnhart. Materials include correspondence, bills, receipts and invoices, deeds, and envelopes. The collection also includes many documents concerning the estate of George Barnhart II. 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Staunton, Va.: McClure Printing Co., 1967."],"bioghist_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe Barnharts of Augusta County, Virginia descended from German immigrant John George Barnhart (1748-1832), also referred to as George Barnhart I. George I first arrived in Philadelphia in 1767 and migrated to Virginia in 1778 where he married Catherine Myers (1756-1826). They originally took up residence in Shenandoah County, but moved to Augusta County by the early spring of 1790. They had four children including an only son, George Barnhart II (1778-1857).\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eGeorge II married Polly Barnett (1785-1859) of Fairfield, Virginia. They went on to have four children including an eldest son, Gideon Barnhart (1814-1892) who married Martha Ann Weade (1825-1917) on March 13, 1845. Gideon was elected Captain of the 1st Battalion, 32nd., Regiment of Virginia in 1843 and held that position for seven years. At the outset of the Civil War, Gideon would likely have been too old to report for active duty. However, evidence suggests that Gideon was a private in Company A, 3rd. Battalion Valley Reserves and mustered in April 23, 1864. Gideon and Martha Barnhart had five children, four of whom lived into adulthood. Their son Henry George Barnhart (1860-1915) married Fannie Ann Gentry (1859-1917) and the couple went on to have seven children.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eMaterials relating to many of the aforementioned Barnharts and their children and grandchildren can be found in this collection.\u003c/p\u003e"],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Bio/Historical Note"],"bioghist_tesim":["The Barnharts of Augusta County, Virginia descended from German immigrant John George Barnhart (1748-1832), also referred to as George Barnhart I. George I first arrived in Philadelphia in 1767 and migrated to Virginia in 1778 where he married Catherine Myers (1756-1826). They originally took up residence in Shenandoah County, but moved to Augusta County by the early spring of 1790. They had four children including an only son, George Barnhart II (1778-1857).","George II married Polly Barnett (1785-1859) of Fairfield, Virginia. They went on to have four children including an eldest son, Gideon Barnhart (1814-1892) who married Martha Ann Weade (1825-1917) on March 13, 1845. Gideon was elected Captain of the 1st Battalion, 32nd., Regiment of Virginia in 1843 and held that position for seven years. At the outset of the Civil War, Gideon would likely have been too old to report for active duty. However, evidence suggests that Gideon was a private in Company A, 3rd. Battalion Valley Reserves and mustered in April 23, 1864. Gideon and Martha Barnhart had five children, four of whom lived into adulthood. Their son Henry George Barnhart (1860-1915) married Fannie Ann Gentry (1859-1917) and the couple went on to have seven children.","Materials relating to many of the aforementioned Barnharts and their children and grandchildren can be found in this collection."],"custodhist_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe materials within this collection originally comprised part of lot 177 of Jeffrey Evans \u0026amp; Associates' November 12, 2016 Americana \u0026amp; Fine Antiques sale. Jeffrey Evans' provenance note indicates that the materials originated from a private Shenandoah Valley of Virginia collection.\u003c/p\u003e"],"custodhist_heading_ssm":["Provenance"],"custodhist_tesim":["The materials within this collection originally comprised part of lot 177 of Jeffrey Evans \u0026 Associates' November 12, 2016 Americana \u0026 Fine Antiques sale. Jeffrey Evans' provenance note indicates that the materials originated from a private Shenandoah Valley of Virginia collection."],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003e[identification of item], [box #, folder #], Barnhart Family Papers, 1836-1944, SC 0237, Special Collections, Carrier Library, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA.\u003c/p\u003e"],"prefercite_tesim":["[identification of item], [box #, folder #], Barnhart Family Papers, 1836-1944, SC 0237, Special Collections, Carrier Library, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA."],"processinfo_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThis collection was originally housed in a photo album with most documents placed in Mylar sleeves. The materials were without a clear arrangement scheme. 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The archivist removed the documents from the album and imposed an artificial arrangement based on person or group of persons."],"relatedmaterial_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003e\u003cextref type=\"simple\" actuate=\"onRequest\" show=\"new\" href=\"http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaxtf/view?docId=uva-sc/viu01311.xml\"\u003eBarnhart family papers, 1832-1963, Accession #11264, Special Collections Dept., University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville, Va.\u003c/extref\u003e\u003c/p\u003e"],"relatedmaterial_heading_ssm":["Related Material"],"relatedmaterial_tesim":["Barnhart family papers, 1832-1963, Accession #11264, Special Collections Dept., University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville, Va."],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe Barnhart Family Papers, 1836-1944, are comprised of assorted documents chiefly relating to the Barnhart family of New Hope, Virginia in Augusta County, particularly George Barnhart II and his son Gideon Barnhart. Materials include correspondence, bills, receipts and invoices, deeds, and envelopes. The collection also includes many documents concerning the estate of George Barnhart II. There are also materials within this collection pertaining to persons not directly related to the Barnharts.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003ePapers relating to George Barnhart II chiefly comprise estate documents, specifically lists of property sold by the administrators of George II's estate in April 1857. Types of items sold from George II's estate include sundry household items, farm implements, and livestock. His widow Polly and son Gideon are listed as buyers of multiple items. There are several variations of the list of property sold, though they all appear to date to April 1857. Additional materials include receipts, financial accounts, and a deed between George II and Polly and their son Gideon for a tract of land on the south side of Round Hill.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003ePapers specifically relating to Polly Barnhart include financial and estate documents. Of particular interest is a document dated April 25, 1857 in which Polly Barnhart grants power of attorney to her son Gideon. In this role, Gideon was to attend to his mother's interests in the estate of the recently deceased Lydia Barnett, likely Polly's sister. Two documents relate to George II's estate. One document, written on behalf of her children, allows Polly to take whatever property she wants from her husband's estate. The second document, written on behalf of Polly, surrenders all but one fourth share in the estate. She elects to divide the estate with her three living children.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThe Gideon Barnhart papers include financial documents and accounts, receipts, and correspondence. Included is an August 2, 1837 letter to Gideon from his cousin Nancy Cullen (1819-1910) in Holland Grove, Illinois. Earlier that year, Gideon spent time traveling back home from Illinois where he visited with his Uncle John P. Cullen and his family. Nancy's expresses pleasure that Gideon has arrived safely home. She provides updates on the happenings in Holland Grove. Of particular interest is a document that evidence suggests is a love letter from Gideon Barnhart to Martha Ann Weade. It is dated June 3, 1844 and was written less than one year before their marriage. The letter is only addressed \"Dear Miss,\" but within the body of the letter, the author, presumably Gideon, writes: \"[I] am pleading my own cause Miss Marth when I think of the pleasant hours I have spent with you I must conclude there is yet thousand more yet unspent.\" He goes on: \"I turn over one page and take the liberty of asking you whither my future visits will meet with your approbation not only as a parcial visitor but one who is trying to clime to the top of the top of the matrimonial chain. I do not wish to flatter you by saying to you your beautiful features and sparkling eyes rosey cheaks and prattling toung have left impressions uppon my mind.\" Lastly, this folder includes an April 17, 1857 document in which Gideon Barnhart purchases from the estate of George Barnhart a \"negro Man Nathan\" for the amount of $550.00. Several of Gideon's documents, including the love letter presumably penned by him to Martha Ann Weade, exhibit evidence of his signature having been clipped.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eOne folder contains documents relating to other Barnhart family members excluding George II, Polly, and Gideon. Materials include correspondence, financial documents, and empty envelopes. Persons featured in these documents William F. Cullen, son-in-law of George Barnhart I, Henry George Barnhart, Walter W. Barnhart, George Gray Barnhart, and Laura Ruth Barnhart.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eLastly, all other documents seemingly unrelated to the Barnhart Family are housed in one folder. These items include accounts between a Mr. Whitmore and Philadelphia merchants Schaffer \u0026amp; Roberts and Inskeep, Molten \u0026amp; Woodruff; a letter from W. H. Carrington to his uncle James Smallwood of South River in Augusta County; two letters penned by Francis Sigler of Indiana; a letter penned by Louisa D. Clagett; a family record outlining Clagett family marriages, births and deaths; and other miscellaneous papers and financial documents.\u003c/p\u003e"],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Content"],"scopecontent_tesim":["The Barnhart Family Papers, 1836-1944, are comprised of assorted documents chiefly relating to the Barnhart family of New Hope, Virginia in Augusta County, particularly George Barnhart II and his son Gideon Barnhart. Materials include correspondence, bills, receipts and invoices, deeds, and envelopes. The collection also includes many documents concerning the estate of George Barnhart II. There are also materials within this collection pertaining to persons not directly related to the Barnharts.","Papers relating to George Barnhart II chiefly comprise estate documents, specifically lists of property sold by the administrators of George II's estate in April 1857. Types of items sold from George II's estate include sundry household items, farm implements, and livestock. His widow Polly and son Gideon are listed as buyers of multiple items. There are several variations of the list of property sold, though they all appear to date to April 1857. Additional materials include receipts, financial accounts, and a deed between George II and Polly and their son Gideon for a tract of land on the south side of Round Hill.","Papers specifically relating to Polly Barnhart include financial and estate documents. Of particular interest is a document dated April 25, 1857 in which Polly Barnhart grants power of attorney to her son Gideon. In this role, Gideon was to attend to his mother's interests in the estate of the recently deceased Lydia Barnett, likely Polly's sister. Two documents relate to George II's estate. One document, written on behalf of her children, allows Polly to take whatever property she wants from her husband's estate. The second document, written on behalf of Polly, surrenders all but one fourth share in the estate. She elects to divide the estate with her three living children.","The Gideon Barnhart papers include financial documents and accounts, receipts, and correspondence. Included is an August 2, 1837 letter to Gideon from his cousin Nancy Cullen (1819-1910) in Holland Grove, Illinois. Earlier that year, Gideon spent time traveling back home from Illinois where he visited with his Uncle John P. Cullen and his family. Nancy's expresses pleasure that Gideon has arrived safely home. She provides updates on the happenings in Holland Grove. Of particular interest is a document that evidence suggests is a love letter from Gideon Barnhart to Martha Ann Weade. It is dated June 3, 1844 and was written less than one year before their marriage. The letter is only addressed \"Dear Miss,\" but within the body of the letter, the author, presumably Gideon, writes: \"[I] am pleading my own cause Miss Marth when I think of the pleasant hours I have spent with you I must conclude there is yet thousand more yet unspent.\" He goes on: \"I turn over one page and take the liberty of asking you whither my future visits will meet with your approbation not only as a parcial visitor but one who is trying to clime to the top of the top of the matrimonial chain. I do not wish to flatter you by saying to you your beautiful features and sparkling eyes rosey cheaks and prattling toung have left impressions uppon my mind.\" Lastly, this folder includes an April 17, 1857 document in which Gideon Barnhart purchases from the estate of George Barnhart a \"negro Man Nathan\" for the amount of $550.00. Several of Gideon's documents, including the love letter presumably penned by him to Martha Ann Weade, exhibit evidence of his signature having been clipped.","One folder contains documents relating to other Barnhart family members excluding George II, Polly, and Gideon. Materials include correspondence, financial documents, and empty envelopes. Persons featured in these documents William F. Cullen, son-in-law of George Barnhart I, Henry George Barnhart, Walter W. Barnhart, George Gray Barnhart, and Laura Ruth Barnhart.","Lastly, all other documents seemingly unrelated to the Barnhart Family are housed in one folder. These items include accounts between a Mr. Whitmore and Philadelphia merchants Schaffer \u0026 Roberts and Inskeep, Molten \u0026 Woodruff; a letter from W. H. Carrington to his uncle James Smallwood of South River in Augusta County; two letters penned by Francis Sigler of Indiana; a letter penned by Louisa D. Clagett; a family record outlining Clagett family marriages, births and deaths; and other miscellaneous papers and financial documents."],"userestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe copyright interests in this collection have been transferred to the James Madison University Special Collections Library. For more information, contact the Special Collections Library Reference Desk (library-special@jmu.edu).\u003c/p\u003e"],"userestrict_heading_ssm":["Use Restrictions"],"userestrict_tesim":["The copyright interests in this collection have been transferred to the James Madison University Special Collections Library. For more information, contact the Special Collections Library Reference Desk (library-special@jmu.edu)."],"abstract_html_tesm":["\u003cabstract id=\"aspace_d276bcbc8c1113ce2aaca6b841892a60\"\u003eThe Barnhart Family Papers, 1836-1944, is comprised of assorted documents chiefly relating to the Barnhart family of New Hope, Virginia in Augusta County, particularly George Barnhart II and his son Gideon Barnhart. Materials include correspondence, bills, receipts and invoices, deeds, and envelopes. The collection also includes many documents concerning the estate of George Barnhart II. There are also materials within this collection pertaining to persons not directly related to the Barnharts.\u003c/abstract\u003e"],"abstract_tesim":["The Barnhart Family Papers, 1836-1944, is comprised of assorted documents chiefly relating to the Barnhart family of New Hope, Virginia in Augusta County, particularly George Barnhart II and his son Gideon Barnhart. Materials include correspondence, bills, receipts and invoices, deeds, and envelopes. The collection also includes many documents concerning the estate of George Barnhart II. There are also materials within this collection pertaining to persons not directly related to the Barnharts."],"names_ssim":["James Madison University Libraries Special Collections","Barnhart family"],"corpname_ssim":["James Madison University Libraries Special Collections"],"famname_ssim":["Barnhart family"],"language_ssim":["English"],"descrules_ssm":["Describing Archives: A Content Standard"],"total_component_count_is":5,"online_item_count_is":0,"component_level_isim":[0],"sort_isi":0,"timestamp":"2026-05-21T00:25:48.758Z"}]}},"label":"Breadcrumbs"}}},"links":{"self":"https://arvasarchive.org/catalog/vihart_repositories_4_resources_390"}},{"id":"vihart_repositories_4_resources_383","type":"collection","attributes":{"title":"Bertha Couchman Hess and Ethel Virginia Dunn Correspondence","creator":{"id":"https://arvasarchive.org/catalog/vihart_repositories_4_resources_383#creator","type":"document_value","attributes":{"value":"Hess, Bertha Couchman, 1884-1980","label":"Creator"}},"abstract_or_scope":{"id":"https://arvasarchive.org/catalog/vihart_repositories_4_resources_383#abstract_or_scope","type":"document_value","attributes":{"value":"The Bertha Couchman Hess and Ethel Virginia Dunn Correspondence, 1918-1927, is comprised of four postcards and seven letters written by Hess and Dunn, her niece, to their family in Martinsburg, West Virginia. Couchman authored three postcards while visiting Harrisonburg in August 1918 and the remainder of the correspondence was written by Dunn while she was a student at the State Teachers College at Harrisonburg and while she was a teacher in Morgantown, West Virginia.","label":"Abstract Or Scope"}},"breadcrumbs":{"id":"https://arvasarchive.org/catalog/vihart_repositories_4_resources_383#breadcrumbs","type":"document_value","attributes":{"value":{"id":"vihart_repositories_4_resources_383","ead_ssi":"vihart_repositories_4_resources_383","_root_":"vihart_repositories_4_resources_383","_nest_parent_":"vihart_repositories_4_resources_383","ead_source_url_ssi":"data/oai/JMU/repositories_4_resources_383.xml","title_ssm":["Bertha Couchman Hess and Ethel Virginia Dunn Correspondence"],"title_tesim":["Bertha Couchman Hess and Ethel Virginia Dunn Correspondence"],"unitdate_ssm":["1918-1927"],"unitdate_inclusive_ssm":["1918-1927"],"level_ssm":["collection"],"level_ssim":["Collection"],"unitid_ssm":["SC 0063","/repositories/4/resources/383"],"text":["SC 0063","/repositories/4/resources/383","Bertha Couchman Hess and Ethel Virginia Dunn Correspondence","Harrisonburg (Va.) -- History","Morgantown (W. Va.) -- History","Education, Higher -- Virginia -- Harrisonburg","Universities and colleges -- Virginia -- Harrisonburg -- History","Letters (correspondence)","Postcards","Collection open to research. Researchers must register and agree to copyright and privacy laws before using this collection. Please contact Research Services staff before visiting the James Madison University Special Collections Library to use this collection.","The correspondence is arranged by author in two letter folders and further arranged chronologically.","Obituary for Ethel V. Dunn,  The Herald-Mail , February 11, 2002.","The Schoolma'am , 1924. Harrisonburg (Va.): State Normal School for Women.","The Schoolma'am , 1925. Harrisonburg (Va.): State Teachers College.","Bertha Couchman Hess was born April 20, 1884 to David Calvin Couchman and Lucy Gordon Couchman of West Virginia. She married Robert Newton Hess (1880-1854) on June 20 1917 in Martinsburg, West Virginia. She died in April 1980 and is buried at Darkesville Cemetery in Berkelely County, West Virginia.","Ethel Virginia Dunn, Hess' niece, was born September 29, 1903 to William Nelson Dunn and Mary Catherine Couchman Dunn of Martinsburg, West Virginia. Dunn matriculated into the State Normal School for Women at Harrisonburg in 1923 and attended for two years. She was a member of the Choral Club, Racquet Tennis Club, Athletic Association, and Y. W. C. A. She went on to attend Rutgers University where she received a Bachelor of Science degree in education. Dunn was a school teacher Morgantown, West Virginia for four years before continuing her career in New Brunswick, New Jersey where she taught for 44 years. Dunn died February 9, 2002 and is buried at Rosedale Cemetery in Martinsburg, West Virginia.","The donor came into possession of a \"Xerox size box\" of materials saved by Barbara Lucinda (Lucy) Gordon Couchman, Bertha Couchman Hess' mother and Ethel Virginia Dunn's grandmother, and Alice Couchman Staples, the donor's grandmother. The materials that make up this collection were contained within that box.","At some point during initial processing and for unknown reasons, the envelopes that accompanied the letters in this collection were photocopied and the originals discarded. The letters were dated based on the postmark on the envelopes and based on information provided by the donor. In order to streamline the process of applying collection numbers, Special Collections staff completed a large-scale renumbering campaign in the spring of 2017.  This collection was previously cataloged as SU 2002-0910.","The Bertha Couchman Hess and Ethel Virginia Dunn Correspondence, 1918-1927, is comprised of four postcards and seven letters written by Hess and her niece Dunn to their family in Martinsburg, West Virginia. Couchman authored three postcards while visiting Harrisonburg in August 1918 and the remainder of the correspondence was written by Dunn while she was a student at the State Teachers College at Harrisonburg and while she was a teacher in Morgantown, West Virginia.","In Hess' three postcards to family she mentions that she is having a nice time (she attended the fair) and that Harrisonburg is a \"beautiful little town\" of about 6,000 people. The postcards feature scenic views of Harrisonburg and the State Normal School for Women.","Dunn's correspondence dates primarily from her time as a student at the State Normal School for Women. In a postcard written to her grandmother, postmarked October 19, 1923, Dunn describes how she plans to spend her free time: \"I am going on a hike Saturday. We are going up to the mountains for chestnuts. This certainly is a pretty little town and I like it real well.\" The postcard features a view of the court house. An additional five letters are included from Dunn's time as a student and are dated 1924-1925. She wrote to her grandmother, Lucy Gordon Couchman, and her Aunt Bert, presumably the aforementioned Bertha Couchman Hess. Dunn's letters include descriptions of Harrisonburg and campus: \"This is a very pretty town and the view of the mountains are lovely. I never saw such lovely sunsets before. We have a beautiful school. There are eight large stone buildings with red tile roofs.\" She also provides detailed accounts of life as a student including descriptions of classes, roommates, social events, meals, weather, and receiving care packages. She makes frequent mention of her cousin Sadie and Aunt Laura who live in town. Dunn also describes a trip to Clifton Forge, Virginia in March 1925, during the holiday between quarters.","Dunn's last letter is dated November 29, 1927 at which point she is teaching school in Morgantown, West Virginia. She describes the Thanksgiving holiday during which she threw a party for her students. Her class also put together a box of groceries for a needy family.","The copyright interests in this collection have been transferred to the James Madison University Special Collections Library. For more information, contact the Special Collections Library Reference Desk (library-special@jmu.edu).","The Bertha Couchman Hess and Ethel Virginia Dunn Correspondence, 1918-1927, is comprised of four postcards and seven letters written by Hess and Dunn, her niece, to their family in Martinsburg, West Virginia. 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Researchers must register and agree to copyright and privacy laws before using this collection. Please contact Research Services staff before visiting the James Madison University Special Collections Library to use this collection.","The collection is arranged into two series. Series 1: Correspondence is arranged into subseries according to recipient. Each series is arranged chronologically.","Correspondence, 1943-1949 Personal and Biographical Papers, 1920-2015","Obituary of Willis Lee Clemmer,  The News Leader , July 12, 2013.","The Schoolma'am , 1948. Harrisonburg (Va.): Madison College.","The Schoolma'am , 1949. Harrisonburg (Va.): Madison College.","Betty Brown Clemmer was born in Chesterfield County, Virginia to Ruth Leigh Moseley Brown (1905-1998) and Henry Brown (1906-1985). After graduating as valedictorian from Buckhorn High School, Betty enrolled at Madison College in the fall of 1947 to pursue her studies in home economics education. Betty was a member of the German Club and Granddaughters' Club as her mother also attended the State Teachers College at Harrisonburg. While in Harrisonburg, Betty met Willis Clemmer of Staunton, Virginia and they were engaged in March 1948. She decided to postpone her college career in January 1949 in preparation for marrying Willis in April 1949. She returned to Madison College and graduated in 1966 with a bachelor's degree. Betty went on to teach elementary school for 29 years and volunteered at the Woodrow Wilson Birthplace Museum and Augusta Health Center.","Willis Clemmer (1926-2013) was born near Fairfield, Virginia to Viola Ralston Clemmer and Alva Lewis Clemmer. During WWII, while attending Lee High School in Staunton, Willis enlisted as a cadet pilot in the Army Air Forces, returning after the war to complete his high school degree. For a short period of time in 1946, Willis also enrolled in Shenandoah College in Dayton, Virginia. After graduating from Dunsmore Business College, Willis worked for Smith's Transfer, Westinghouse, and Staunton's Public Work Department. He had a particular fascination with automobiles and was a member of the Model A Ford Club of American and the Antique Automobile Club of America.","The Seawright Springs (Augusta County, Virginia) history compiled by Ralph Coffman was originally housed in a three-ring binder with each page in a plastic sleeve. The history was disbound and the plastic sleeves discarded. The pages were foldered together and in their orginal order in an acid-free folder. All pieces of correspondence were removed from their respective envelopes. The letters and envelopes were joined with a slip of acid-free paper and a stainless steel paper clip.","The Betty Brown Clemmer and Willis Clemmer Papers, 1920-2015 (bulk 1943-1949), largely comprise correspondence between Betty Brown Clemmer and Willis Clemmer during their courtship while Betty was a student at Madison College. Other papers relate to Betty's coursework at Madison College including art drawings and program cards, Willis' service in the Army Air Forces including a patch and correspondence from the Veterans Administration, and family biographies and histories related to Augusta County.","Series 1: Correspondence, 1943-1949, largely comprises love letters between Betty Brown Clemmer and Willis Clemmer during their courtship and subsequent engagement when Betty was a student at Madison College. They are sentimental and endearing overall, but are also gossipy and newsy in nature, providing updates on family members, community happenings, and each other's social life.","Correspondence to Betty primarily comprises letters from Willis written during their courtship and are, as a result, affectionate and longing in nature. In writing to Betty, Willis also describes his daily activities of playing sports, driving cars, and seeing movies, in addition to providing updates on family and neighbors. Letters to Betty also include early love letters from gentleman callers other than Willis. She received letters from boys who were attending Virginia Tech, Randolph Macon, and Fork Union Military Academy. Letters presumably from high school beaus are also included. Other correspondents include Betty's mother Ruth Moseley Brown, Betty's grandmother Nannie Clay Brown, and fellow Madison College students. A March 15, 1949 from one of Betty's former classmates, Bunny Maifield, describes the goings-on at Madison College including girls getting caught by the watchmen \"night riding\" as well as a \"bunch of drunk Virginia boys came over and took over the place.\"","Willis' letters are primarily from Betty, but also include letters from friends and family. A selection of 1945 letters were written to Willis while he was stationed at Keesler Field in Mississippi. The content of these letters describe tales of escapades back home and friends going to Madison College on dates. While Betty's letters to Willis are mostly affectionate and playful in nature, they also document her school and home life. Of particular interest is an August 11, 1948 letter from Betty to Willis while she is home in Baskerville for the summer. She describes an incident with an African-American child stepping on a nail and not receiving proper medical care. In describing this incident, Betty uses racist language and characterizations of the child's family.","Beyond their overall sentiments of affection, Betty's letters to Willis provide insight into her life as a student at Madison College. Betty comments on her schoolwork, exams, studying, social life, entertainment, going downtown (buying food, going to the movies, going to Friddles), and rules and regulations (March 23, 1948: \"All my plans for going home have gone 'hay-wire.' Dr. Duke said today that we had to have a chaperone and at this late date we can't find anyone. I could cuss him - wonder what he thinks a busload of girls are going to do in broad open daylight - must think we are terrible\"). Betty frequently mentions her dissatisfaction with school and refers to Madison College as Hell or a hell-hole. Additionally, in several letters to Willis (December 4, 1947; September 28, 1948; etc.), Betty describes her presumed struggles with an apparent eating disorder.","A selection of \"special letters\" (as designated by the donor) concern Betty's engagement announcement, upcoming wedding, and Ruth Moseley Brown's visit to Chicago, etc. These letters are interfiled according to date and include Betty to Willis, April 13, 1949; Ruth Brown to Betty, September 17, 1947; Ruth Brown to Betty, September 15, 1947; Ruth Brown to Betty, April 8, 1948 (\"hoping you'd set the world on fire before getting married\"); Willis to Betty, April 11, 1949; Nannie Clay Brown to Betty, January 14, 1949 (letter after quitting school to get married); Nannie Clay Brown to Betty, May 3, 1948; Rev. Claude Moseley (uncle) to Betty, March 31, 1949; Ruth Brown to Betty, March 9, 1948.","Series 2: Personal and Biographical Papers, 1920-2015, comprise personal papers belonging to Betty and Willis Clemmer as well as personal and family biographies. Materials also relate to Augusta County history. ","This series includes photographs - originals and facsimiles - of the Clemmers as well as Ruth Moseley Brown during her high school and college years.","The Clemmers' personal papers include materials and coursework from Betty's time at Madison College, specifically drawings from Basic Art 2 in which she was assigned to draw home furnishings and clothing. Alimae Aiken was Betty's instructor. Willis' transcripts from Lee High School and documents from the Veterans Administration are included.","The series also comprises several Clemmer family biographies, autobiographies, and histories related to Augusta County, Virginia. Willis' reminiscences, written in 1993-1994, document his memories of growing up in Augusta County. A history of Seawright Springs (Mt. Solon) compiled by Augusta County historian Ralph Coffman includes photographs and other materials related to the resort. The Seawright Springs history includes a partial transcript of Alexander Stuart Coffman's 1864 diary and a transcript of a March 26, 1907 letter from Charles Curry (a lawyer in Staunton) to an A. C. Gorden regarding the geography and folklore of specific Augusta County locations. ","Two self-published local history publications were removed from the collection and cataloged separately.","The copyright interests in this collection have been transferred to the James Madison University Special Collections Library. 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A March 15, 1949 from one of Betty's former classmates, Bunny Maifield, describes the goings-on at Madison College including girls getting caught by the watchmen \"night riding\" as well as a \"bunch of drunk Virginia boys came over and took over the place.\"","Willis' letters are primarily from Betty, but also include letters from friends and family. A selection of 1945 letters were written to Willis while he was stationed at Keesler Field in Mississippi. The content of these letters describe tales of escapades back home and friends going to Madison College on dates. While Betty's letters to Willis are mostly affectionate and playful in nature, they also document her school and home life. Of particular interest is an August 11, 1948 letter from Betty to Willis while she is home in Baskerville for the summer. She describes an incident with an African-American child stepping on a nail and not receiving proper medical care. In describing this incident, Betty uses racist language and characterizations of the child's family.","Beyond their overall sentiments of affection, Betty's letters to Willis provide insight into her life as a student at Madison College. Betty comments on her schoolwork, exams, studying, social life, entertainment, going downtown (buying food, going to the movies, going to Friddles), and rules and regulations (March 23, 1948: \"All my plans for going home have gone 'hay-wire.' Dr. Duke said today that we had to have a chaperone and at this late date we can't find anyone. I could cuss him - wonder what he thinks a busload of girls are going to do in broad open daylight - must think we are terrible\"). Betty frequently mentions her dissatisfaction with school and refers to Madison College as Hell or a hell-hole. Additionally, in several letters to Willis (December 4, 1947; September 28, 1948; etc.), Betty describes her presumed struggles with an apparent eating disorder.","A selection of \"special letters\" (as designated by the donor) concern Betty's engagement announcement, upcoming wedding, and Ruth Moseley Brown's visit to Chicago, etc. These letters are interfiled according to date and include Betty to Willis, April 13, 1949; Ruth Brown to Betty, September 17, 1947; Ruth Brown to Betty, September 15, 1947; Ruth Brown to Betty, April 8, 1948 (\"hoping you'd set the world on fire before getting married\"); Willis to Betty, April 11, 1949; Nannie Clay Brown to Betty, January 14, 1949 (letter after quitting school to get married); Nannie Clay Brown to Betty, May 3, 1948; Rev. Claude Moseley (uncle) to Betty, March 31, 1949; Ruth Brown to Betty, March 9, 1948.","Series 2: Personal and Biographical Papers, 1920-2015, comprise personal papers belonging to Betty and Willis Clemmer as well as personal and family biographies. Materials also relate to Augusta County history. ","This series includes photographs - originals and facsimiles - of the Clemmers as well as Ruth Moseley Brown during her high school and college years.","The Clemmers' personal papers include materials and coursework from Betty's time at Madison College, specifically drawings from Basic Art 2 in which she was assigned to draw home furnishings and clothing. Alimae Aiken was Betty's instructor. Willis' transcripts from Lee High School and documents from the Veterans Administration are included.","The series also comprises several Clemmer family biographies, autobiographies, and histories related to Augusta County, Virginia. Willis' reminiscences, written in 1993-1994, document his memories of growing up in Augusta County. A history of Seawright Springs (Mt. Solon) compiled by Augusta County historian Ralph Coffman includes photographs and other materials related to the resort. The Seawright Springs history includes a partial transcript of Alexander Stuart Coffman's 1864 diary and a transcript of a March 26, 1907 letter from Charles Curry (a lawyer in Staunton) to an A. C. Gorden regarding the geography and folklore of specific Augusta County locations. 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Betty was a member of the German Club and Granddaughters' Club as her mother also attended the State Teachers College at Harrisonburg. While in Harrisonburg, Betty met Willis Clemmer of Staunton, Virginia and they were engaged in March 1948. She decided to postpone her college career in January 1949 in preparation for marrying Willis in April 1949. She returned to Madison College and graduated in 1966 with a bachelor's degree. Betty went on to teach elementary school for 29 years and volunteered at the Woodrow Wilson Birthplace Museum and Augusta Health Center.","Willis Clemmer (1926-2013) was born near Fairfield, Virginia to Viola Ralston Clemmer and Alva Lewis Clemmer. During WWII, while attending Lee High School in Staunton, Willis enlisted as a cadet pilot in the Army Air Forces, returning after the war to complete his high school degree. For a short period of time in 1946, Willis also enrolled in Shenandoah College in Dayton, Virginia. After graduating from Dunsmore Business College, Willis worked for Smith's Transfer, Westinghouse, and Staunton's Public Work Department. He had a particular fascination with automobiles and was a member of the Model A Ford Club of American and the Antique Automobile Club of America.","The Seawright Springs (Augusta County, Virginia) history compiled by Ralph Coffman was originally housed in a three-ring binder with each page in a plastic sleeve. The history was disbound and the plastic sleeves discarded. The pages were foldered together and in their orginal order in an acid-free folder. All pieces of correspondence were removed from their respective envelopes. The letters and envelopes were joined with a slip of acid-free paper and a stainless steel paper clip.","The Betty Brown Clemmer and Willis Clemmer Papers, 1920-2015 (bulk 1943-1949), largely comprise correspondence between Betty Brown Clemmer and Willis Clemmer during their courtship while Betty was a student at Madison College. Other papers relate to Betty's coursework at Madison College including art drawings and program cards, Willis' service in the Army Air Forces including a patch and correspondence from the Veterans Administration, and family biographies and histories related to Augusta County.","Series 1: Correspondence, 1943-1949, largely comprises love letters between Betty Brown Clemmer and Willis Clemmer during their courtship and subsequent engagement when Betty was a student at Madison College. They are sentimental and endearing overall, but are also gossipy and newsy in nature, providing updates on family members, community happenings, and each other's social life.","Correspondence to Betty primarily comprises letters from Willis written during their courtship and are, as a result, affectionate and longing in nature. In writing to Betty, Willis also describes his daily activities of playing sports, driving cars, and seeing movies, in addition to providing updates on family and neighbors. Letters to Betty also include early love letters from gentleman callers other than Willis. She received letters from boys who were attending Virginia Tech, Randolph Macon, and Fork Union Military Academy. Letters presumably from high school beaus are also included. Other correspondents include Betty's mother Ruth Moseley Brown, Betty's grandmother Nannie Clay Brown, and fellow Madison College students. A March 15, 1949 from one of Betty's former classmates, Bunny Maifield, describes the goings-on at Madison College including girls getting caught by the watchmen \"night riding\" as well as a \"bunch of drunk Virginia boys came over and took over the place.\"","Willis' letters are primarily from Betty, but also include letters from friends and family. A selection of 1945 letters were written to Willis while he was stationed at Keesler Field in Mississippi. The content of these letters describe tales of escapades back home and friends going to Madison College on dates. While Betty's letters to Willis are mostly affectionate and playful in nature, they also document her school and home life. Of particular interest is an August 11, 1948 letter from Betty to Willis while she is home in Baskerville for the summer. She describes an incident with an African-American child stepping on a nail and not receiving proper medical care. In describing this incident, Betty uses racist language and characterizations of the child's family.","Beyond their overall sentiments of affection, Betty's letters to Willis provide insight into her life as a student at Madison College. Betty comments on her schoolwork, exams, studying, social life, entertainment, going downtown (buying food, going to the movies, going to Friddles), and rules and regulations (March 23, 1948: \"All my plans for going home have gone 'hay-wire.' Dr. Duke said today that we had to have a chaperone and at this late date we can't find anyone. I could cuss him - wonder what he thinks a busload of girls are going to do in broad open daylight - must think we are terrible\"). Betty frequently mentions her dissatisfaction with school and refers to Madison College as Hell or a hell-hole. Additionally, in several letters to Willis (December 4, 1947; September 28, 1948; etc.), Betty describes her presumed struggles with an apparent eating disorder.","A selection of \"special letters\" (as designated by the donor) concern Betty's engagement announcement, upcoming wedding, and Ruth Moseley Brown's visit to Chicago, etc. These letters are interfiled according to date and include Betty to Willis, April 13, 1949; Ruth Brown to Betty, September 17, 1947; Ruth Brown to Betty, September 15, 1947; Ruth Brown to Betty, April 8, 1948 (\"hoping you'd set the world on fire before getting married\"); Willis to Betty, April 11, 1949; Nannie Clay Brown to Betty, January 14, 1949 (letter after quitting school to get married); Nannie Clay Brown to Betty, May 3, 1948; Rev. 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The letters and envelopes were joined with a slip of acid-free paper and a stainless steel paper clip."],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe Betty Brown Clemmer and Willis Clemmer Papers, 1920-2015 (bulk 1943-1949), largely comprise correspondence between Betty Brown Clemmer and Willis Clemmer during their courtship while Betty was a student at Madison College. Other papers relate to Betty's coursework at Madison College including art drawings and program cards, Willis' service in the Army Air Forces including a patch and correspondence from the Veterans Administration, and family biographies and histories related to Augusta County.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 1: Correspondence, 1943-1949, largely comprises love letters between Betty Brown Clemmer and Willis Clemmer during their courtship and subsequent engagement when Betty was a student at Madison College. They are sentimental and endearing overall, but are also gossipy and newsy in nature, providing updates on family members, community happenings, and each other's social life.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence to Betty primarily comprises letters from Willis written during their courtship and are, as a result, affectionate and longing in nature. In writing to Betty, Willis also describes his daily activities of playing sports, driving cars, and seeing movies, in addition to providing updates on family and neighbors. Letters to Betty also include early love letters from gentleman callers other than Willis. She received letters from boys who were attending Virginia Tech, Randolph Macon, and Fork Union Military Academy. Letters presumably from high school beaus are also included. Other correspondents include Betty's mother Ruth Moseley Brown, Betty's grandmother Nannie Clay Brown, and fellow Madison College students. A March 15, 1949 from one of Betty's former classmates, Bunny Maifield, describes the goings-on at Madison College including girls getting caught by the watchmen \"night riding\" as well as a \"bunch of drunk Virginia boys came over and took over the place.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eWillis' letters are primarily from Betty, but also include letters from friends and family. A selection of 1945 letters were written to Willis while he was stationed at Keesler Field in Mississippi. The content of these letters describe tales of escapades back home and friends going to Madison College on dates. While Betty's letters to Willis are mostly affectionate and playful in nature, they also document her school and home life. Of particular interest is an August 11, 1948 letter from Betty to Willis while she is home in Baskerville for the summer. She describes an incident with an African-American child stepping on a nail and not receiving proper medical care. In describing this incident, Betty uses racist language and characterizations of the child's family.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eBeyond their overall sentiments of affection, Betty's letters to Willis provide insight into her life as a student at Madison College. Betty comments on her schoolwork, exams, studying, social life, entertainment, going downtown (buying food, going to the movies, going to Friddles), and rules and regulations (March 23, 1948: \"All my plans for going home have gone 'hay-wire.' Dr. Duke said today that we had to have a chaperone and at this late date we can't find anyone. I could cuss him - wonder what he thinks a busload of girls are going to do in broad open daylight - must think we are terrible\"). Betty frequently mentions her dissatisfaction with school and refers to Madison College as Hell or a hell-hole. Additionally, in several letters to Willis (December 4, 1947; September 28, 1948; etc.), Betty describes her presumed struggles with an apparent eating disorder.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eA selection of \"special letters\" (as designated by the donor) concern Betty's engagement announcement, upcoming wedding, and Ruth Moseley Brown's visit to Chicago, etc. These letters are interfiled according to date and include Betty to Willis, April 13, 1949; Ruth Brown to Betty, September 17, 1947; Ruth Brown to Betty, September 15, 1947; Ruth Brown to Betty, April 8, 1948 (\"hoping you'd set the world on fire before getting married\"); Willis to Betty, April 11, 1949; Nannie Clay Brown to Betty, January 14, 1949 (letter after quitting school to get married); Nannie Clay Brown to Betty, May 3, 1948; Rev. Claude Moseley (uncle) to Betty, March 31, 1949; Ruth Brown to Betty, March 9, 1948.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 2: Personal and Biographical Papers, 1920-2015, comprise personal papers belonging to Betty and Willis Clemmer as well as personal and family biographies. Materials also relate to Augusta County history. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes photographs - originals and facsimiles - of the Clemmers as well as Ruth Moseley Brown during her high school and college years.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThe Clemmers' personal papers include materials and coursework from Betty's time at Madison College, specifically drawings from Basic Art 2 in which she was assigned to draw home furnishings and clothing. Alimae Aiken was Betty's instructor. Willis' transcripts from Lee High School and documents from the Veterans Administration are included.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThe series also comprises several Clemmer family biographies, autobiographies, and histories related to Augusta County, Virginia. Willis' reminiscences, written in 1993-1994, document his memories of growing up in Augusta County. A history of Seawright Springs (Mt. Solon) compiled by Augusta County historian Ralph Coffman includes photographs and other materials related to the resort. The Seawright Springs history includes a partial transcript of Alexander Stuart Coffman's 1864 diary and a transcript of a March 26, 1907 letter from Charles Curry (a lawyer in Staunton) to an A. C. Gorden regarding the geography and folklore of specific Augusta County locations. \u003c/p\u003e"],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Content","Scope and Content","Scope and Content"],"scopecontent_tesim":["The Betty Brown Clemmer and Willis Clemmer Papers, 1920-2015 (bulk 1943-1949), largely comprise correspondence between Betty Brown Clemmer and Willis Clemmer during their courtship while Betty was a student at Madison College. Other papers relate to Betty's coursework at Madison College including art drawings and program cards, Willis' service in the Army Air Forces including a patch and correspondence from the Veterans Administration, and family biographies and histories related to Augusta County.","Series 1: Correspondence, 1943-1949, largely comprises love letters between Betty Brown Clemmer and Willis Clemmer during their courtship and subsequent engagement when Betty was a student at Madison College. They are sentimental and endearing overall, but are also gossipy and newsy in nature, providing updates on family members, community happenings, and each other's social life.","Correspondence to Betty primarily comprises letters from Willis written during their courtship and are, as a result, affectionate and longing in nature. In writing to Betty, Willis also describes his daily activities of playing sports, driving cars, and seeing movies, in addition to providing updates on family and neighbors. Letters to Betty also include early love letters from gentleman callers other than Willis. She received letters from boys who were attending Virginia Tech, Randolph Macon, and Fork Union Military Academy. Letters presumably from high school beaus are also included. Other correspondents include Betty's mother Ruth Moseley Brown, Betty's grandmother Nannie Clay Brown, and fellow Madison College students. A March 15, 1949 from one of Betty's former classmates, Bunny Maifield, describes the goings-on at Madison College including girls getting caught by the watchmen \"night riding\" as well as a \"bunch of drunk Virginia boys came over and took over the place.\"","Willis' letters are primarily from Betty, but also include letters from friends and family. A selection of 1945 letters were written to Willis while he was stationed at Keesler Field in Mississippi. The content of these letters describe tales of escapades back home and friends going to Madison College on dates. While Betty's letters to Willis are mostly affectionate and playful in nature, they also document her school and home life. Of particular interest is an August 11, 1948 letter from Betty to Willis while she is home in Baskerville for the summer. She describes an incident with an African-American child stepping on a nail and not receiving proper medical care. In describing this incident, Betty uses racist language and characterizations of the child's family.","Beyond their overall sentiments of affection, Betty's letters to Willis provide insight into her life as a student at Madison College. Betty comments on her schoolwork, exams, studying, social life, entertainment, going downtown (buying food, going to the movies, going to Friddles), and rules and regulations (March 23, 1948: \"All my plans for going home have gone 'hay-wire.' Dr. Duke said today that we had to have a chaperone and at this late date we can't find anyone. I could cuss him - wonder what he thinks a busload of girls are going to do in broad open daylight - must think we are terrible\"). Betty frequently mentions her dissatisfaction with school and refers to Madison College as Hell or a hell-hole. Additionally, in several letters to Willis (December 4, 1947; September 28, 1948; etc.), Betty describes her presumed struggles with an apparent eating disorder.","A selection of \"special letters\" (as designated by the donor) concern Betty's engagement announcement, upcoming wedding, and Ruth Moseley Brown's visit to Chicago, etc. These letters are interfiled according to date and include Betty to Willis, April 13, 1949; Ruth Brown to Betty, September 17, 1947; Ruth Brown to Betty, September 15, 1947; Ruth Brown to Betty, April 8, 1948 (\"hoping you'd set the world on fire before getting married\"); Willis to Betty, April 11, 1949; Nannie Clay Brown to Betty, January 14, 1949 (letter after quitting school to get married); Nannie Clay Brown to Betty, May 3, 1948; Rev. Claude Moseley (uncle) to Betty, March 31, 1949; Ruth Brown to Betty, March 9, 1948.","Series 2: Personal and Biographical Papers, 1920-2015, comprise personal papers belonging to Betty and Willis Clemmer as well as personal and family biographies. Materials also relate to Augusta County history. ","This series includes photographs - originals and facsimiles - of the Clemmers as well as Ruth Moseley Brown during her high school and college years.","The Clemmers' personal papers include materials and coursework from Betty's time at Madison College, specifically drawings from Basic Art 2 in which she was assigned to draw home furnishings and clothing. Alimae Aiken was Betty's instructor. Willis' transcripts from Lee High School and documents from the Veterans Administration are included.","The series also comprises several Clemmer family biographies, autobiographies, and histories related to Augusta County, Virginia. Willis' reminiscences, written in 1993-1994, document his memories of growing up in Augusta County. A history of Seawright Springs (Mt. Solon) compiled by Augusta County historian Ralph Coffman includes photographs and other materials related to the resort. The Seawright Springs history includes a partial transcript of Alexander Stuart Coffman's 1864 diary and a transcript of a March 26, 1907 letter from Charles Curry (a lawyer in Staunton) to an A. C. Gorden regarding the geography and folklore of specific Augusta County locations. 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For more information, contact the Special Collections Library Reference Desk (library-special@jmu.edu)."],"abstract_html_tesm":["\u003cabstract id=\"aspace_b6bfd9caf198153b7116f55373de457e\"\u003eThe Betty Brown Clemmer and Willis Clemmer Papers, 1920-2015 (bulk 1943-1949), largely comprise correspondence between Betty Brown Clemmer and Willis Clemmer during their courtship while Betty was a student at Madison College. Other papers relate to Betty's coursework at Madison College, Willis' service in the Army Air Forces, and family biographies.\u003c/abstract\u003e"],"abstract_tesim":["The Betty Brown Clemmer and Willis Clemmer Papers, 1920-2015 (bulk 1943-1949), largely comprise correspondence between Betty Brown Clemmer and Willis Clemmer during their courtship while Betty was a student at Madison College. 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These papers document the related Scott, Bassett, Blackley, Hoge, Matthews, and Nix families of Texas and Staunton, Virginia.","label":"Abstract Or Scope"}},"breadcrumbs":{"id":"https://arvasarchive.org/catalog/vihart_repositories_4_resources_407#breadcrumbs","type":"document_value","attributes":{"value":{"id":"vihart_repositories_4_resources_407","ead_ssi":"vihart_repositories_4_resources_407","_root_":"vihart_repositories_4_resources_407","_nest_parent_":"vihart_repositories_4_resources_407","ead_source_url_ssi":"data/oai/JMU/repositories_4_resources_407.xml","title_ssm":["Blackley Family papers"],"title_tesim":["Blackley Family papers"],"unitdate_ssm":["1830-2020"],"unitdate_inclusive_ssm":["1830-2020"],"level_ssm":["collection"],"level_ssim":["Collection"],"unitid_ssm":["SC 0232","/repositories/4/resources/407"],"text":["SC 0232","/repositories/4/resources/407","Blackley Family papers","Staunton (Va.)  -- History -- 19th century","Staunton (Va.)  -- History -- 20th century","Staunton (Va.)  -- History -- 21st century","Virginia -- Genealogy","Texas -- Genealogy","Texas -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865","United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Campaigns","Augusta County (Va.) -- Social life and customs -- 19th century","Augusta County (Va.) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century","Augusta County (Va.) -- Social life and customs -- 21st century","Augusta County (Va.) -- History -- 19th century","Augusta County (Va.) -- History -- 20th century","Augusta County (Va.) -- History -- 21st century","Military training camps -- United States","World War, 1939-1945","Radio stations -- Virginia -- Harrisonburg","Radio stations -- Virginia -- Staunton","Photography","Travel -- 20th century","Letters (correspondence)","Photographs","Diaries","Scrapbooks","Printed Ephemera","Drafts (documents)","Pamphlets","Brochures","Scripts (documents)","Newspaper clippings","Maps (documents)","Color patches (military patches)","Certificates","Diplomas","Postcards","Family papers","Researchers must register and agree to copyright and privacy laws before using this collection. Collection is open for research with the exception of one file contained within the correspondence series that is restricted until January 1, 2035 at the request of the donor.","Access to original media, photographic negatives, and slides contained within this collection is restricted; reformatted access copies of these materials may exist, or researchers may request digital access copies be made.","Please contact the Special Collections Reference Desk before visiting the James Madison University Special Collections Library to use this collection (library-special@jmu.edu).","File is restricted from research use until January 1, 2035 at the request of the donor.","Access to original photographic negatives contained within this collection is restricted; reformatted access copies of these materials may exist, or researchers may contact library-special@jmu.edu to request reformatted access copies.","Digital images of nineteenth-century correspondence and papers are available upon request.","Duplicates and out of scope materials were returned to the donor.","Duplicates and out of scope materials were returned to the donor.","The collection is arranged in seven series:","Correspondence, 1830-2011 Personal Papers, 1857-2016 Ephemera, 1856-2004 Photographs, circa 1861-1989 Scrapbooks, 1862-1931 2020-0121 Accession, 1930s-2019 2020-0702 Accession, 1882-2020","Murr, Erika, L., ed.,  A Rebel Wife in Texas: The Diary and Letters of Elizabeth Scott Neblett, 1852-1864 . Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2001.","The Blackley Family Papers document the related Scott, Bassett, Blackley, Hoge, and Nix families of mostly Texas and Staunton, Virginia between 1830 and 2016. James Scott (1799-1856) was a Tennessee native and former Mississippi Supreme Court chief justice who married Sarah Lane (1803-1880) and settled in Anderson, Texas. James was a prominent Texas judge who was friends with Davie Crockett. While in Mississippi and Texas, James and Sarah had six children. The eldest, Elizabeth \"Lizzie\" (1833-1917), was born in Mississippi in 1833, Sarah \"Sallie\" (1843-1914), born April 9, 1843 in Texas, and one of their brothers, Garrett (1838-1862), born in 1838, contribute the most to this collection of letters.","Lizzie married William H. Neblett (1826-1871), a farmer and attorney, in 1852. He eventually left her to go fight for the Confederacy. Her domestic struggle on the home front during the Civil War is the subject of Erika L. Murr's book, A Rebel Wife in Texas: The Diary and Letters of Elizabeth Scott Neblett, 1852-1864 (2001).","In 1862, Sallie married Robert Houston \"R.H.\" Bassett (1836-1870). R.H. went on to enlist and serve in the famed Hood's Texas Brigade from 1861 to his wounding in 1864. He worked briefly as the adjutant general to Major General John Bell. While leading the regiment, he was wounded at the Battle of Chickamauga by an artillery shell fragment that lodged in his shoulder. This would effectively end his role in the war. Following the conclusion of the conflict and his recovery from the wound, R.H. tried his hand at politics in a bid to represent Grimes County, Texas in Congress. Their first child, Robert, died tragically in 1864 at only eight months old. R.H. died in 1870 because of health complications that appear related to edema.","R.H.'s brother, Noah (1839-1886), also served in the Texas Brigade. The correspondence between R.H., Sallie, and Noah provides a lucid account of the Army of Northern Virginia's major campaigns and operations, including developments related to the Battles of Antietam, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, and Chickamauga.","Garrett Scott, Sallie Scott's brother, died in action at the Battle of Antietam September 17, 1862 while serving in the Texas Brigade. His letters from the early years of the war offer yet another perspective of campaign and camp life.","R.H. and Sallie's daughter, Barbara \"Belle\" Bassett (1865-1958), married William Mason Blackley (1863-1898) in 1884 and lived in Staunton, Virginia before moving to Washington, D.C. Research suggests they only had one child, Belle Blackley (1890-1967), whom never married and lived out her life in Washington, D.C. However, an 1888 letter contained in this collection written by Ida Carter, the Blackley's \"Black Mamy,\" is addressed to a Col. Bassett Blackley, in care of W. M. Blackley. Carter begins the letter \"Dear Little Bassett.\" This letter seems to suggest that the Blackleys did in fact have another child, Bassett Blackley, prior to Belle. If that is the case, Bassett Blackley may have died in childhood.","The bulk of the twentieth-century material was created by or concerns William Mason Blackley's nephew, Charles \"Chas\" Phillips Blackley Sr. (1909-1999), his wife Catherine Matthews Blackley (1914-2010), and their son and daughter-in-law Charles \"Chuck\" Phillips Blackley (b. 1951) and Patricia Fry Blackley (b. 1952).","Charles \"Chas\" Phillips Blackley Sr. was born in Staunton, Virginia in 1909. His parents died from the Spanish Flu when he was 10. Their deaths required Chas and his sister Mary Gilkeson Blackley to move in with their aunt, Fannie Blackley Cushing in Staunton. These materials cover his travels throughout the Pacific and Asia aboard a \"tramp steamer\" with boyhood friend, George Earman in 1930, his 1927-1929 military training in the little discussed Citizens Military Training Camps (CMTC), time at the Virginia Military Institute (VMI), his 1934 travels in Europe, World War II military service, and ownership and operation of WSVA, the first radio station in Harrisonburg, Virginia. Chas sold his share in WSVA and moved to Staunton, Virginia where he started the WTON radio station. Beyond his official jobs, Chas spent much of the early 1930s as an amateur playwright and author. Chas and Catherine Matthews were married in 1938.","While traveling Europe via train in 1934, Chas met David Kahn, a young Presbyterian judge of Indian descent. They would become lifelong friends. Mr. Kahn went on to become a governor of an Indian province under British rule and later head the Department of Sanitation for Calcutta. He and his wife visited their children, who had moved to the United States, and Mr. and Mrs. Blackley often until his health would not allow it. Evidence of their lifelong friendship can be found most clearly in this collection's correspondence and photographs.","Chas' WWII experience saw him drafted at age 35 and shipped to Camp Crowder, Missouri for training. He would eventually be transferred to Washington, D.C. where he worked as a private in the basement of the Pentagon. According this son, his superiors frequently called him upstairs to request autographed photos of American Broadcasting Company (ABC) celebrities. He was able to oblige them because of WSVA's status as an ABC affiliate.","Catherine Matthews Blackley was originally from Cambridge, Maryland and came to the Shenandoah Valley to attend the State Teacher's College at Harrisonburg (now James Madison University). She graduated in 1935 with a degree in home economics. For a short time she taught in Norfolk, Virginia before marrying Chas Blackley in 1938 and buying a home on Port Republic Road in Harrisonburg. After Chas was drafted and shipped to Camp Crowder, Mrs. Blackley traveled to Neosho, Missouri to be with her husband. While in Missouri, she volunteered with the Red Cross to help care for wounded soldiers. She continued this service after Mr. Blackley was transferred to Washington, D.C. After the war, they returned to the Valley and Catherine became a member of the Staunton School Board and was very active in volunteer work.","Charles \"Chuck\" Phillips Blackley Jr. was a professional engineer and graduate of Virginia Tech. He provided services in Virginia, West Virginia, and Maryland. Chuck married Patricia Fry in 1971. At the time he sold his office it was the largest engineering company in the region outside of Richmond, Roanoke, and Northern Virginia.","Patricia Fry Blackley graduated from James Madison University in 1987 and became a licensed real estate appraiser. After Chuck stepped away from his engineering office he teamed up with his wife and the couple became full-time photographers and writers. Their work can be found in hundreds of magazines, books, and calendars.","The collection as a whole required only limited preservation treatment. Some of the correspondence and papers did require Mylar sleeves. The 3D objects are housed together in one box with special housings created to protect them long-term. Most of the nineteenth-century letters required flattening to make them more accessible and to allow for proper digitization as per the donor agreement. Also, many of the diplomas and older photographs were removed from their frames for proper storage. Original order of materials was maintained wherever possible, taking into account provenance, storage needs, and accessibility for researchers.","Photographs and cabinet cards were removed from a leather photo album with \"Fannie S. Blackley Session 1881-'82\" embossed on the front cover. Some of the cabinet cards were identified with a Post-It note. Those identifications were written in pencil on the back of the cabinet cards. The photo album was not retained due to significant condition issues.","Charles C. Phillips Civil War Papers. MS 0327. Virginia Military Institute Archives.","Murr, Erika, L., ed.,  A Rebel Wife in Texas: The Diary and Letters of Elizabeth Scott Neblett, 1852-1864 . Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2001.","Lizzie Scott Neblett Papers, 1848-1935, Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, The University of Texas at Austin.","Yourself and family are invited to attend the feast of Mondamin corn festival . n.p.: Staunton, Va.: J. Harry Drechsler, pr., [1890], 1890. JAMES MADISON UNIV's Catalog, EBSCOhost (accessed May 2, 2017).","The Blackley Family Papers, 1830-2020, consists of hundreds of letters that span from 1830 to 2011; diaries; official United States, Confederate, and Texas documents; literary works; newspaper clippings; postcards; ephemera; and photographs. These papers document the related Scott, Bassett, Blackley, Hoge, Matthews, and Nix families of Texas and Staunton, Virginia.","Series 1: Correspondence, 1830-2011, is comprised of more than 300 individual letters. The majority of the earlier ones involve Sarah \"Sallie\" Scott Bassett and/or her husband R.H. Bassett. Together their combined correspondence comprises eight folders and spans the years 1850-1913.","These letters cover the years of the American Civil War and shed light on how the conflict affected their lives. In addition to letters from Captain R.H. Bassett, there are dozens of notes written home to Sallie from her brother Garrett Scott, brother-in-law Noah Bassett, and her cousin John Nix. All of these men spent time serving in the 4th Texas Regiment of the famed Texas Brigade. While their letters contain minimal military focused discussions, they do highlight camp life, personal struggles of being separated from each other, personal and public incidents, and family news. The military discussion is really limited to mention of the dead and wounded from battles and engagements. However, R.H. does write a letter to Sallie as he arrives on the battlefield at Gettysburg. He expresses excitement to build off the Confederates successes that afternoon. Battles and engagements discussed include Antietam (September 17, 1862), Chancellorsville (April 30 to May 6, 1863), Gettysburg (July 1-3, 1863), and Chickamauga (September 18–20, 1863).","Lizzie Scott Neblett was the older sister of Sallie Bassett and many letters between the sisters not previously examined, both before and after the American Civil War, can be found within this collection. Their letters shed light on relationship struggles, farm life, local news, and family connections.","While few in number, the surviving letters of Lizzie and Sallie's father, James Scott, provide significant insight into Texas prior to its in 1846. In the first, James writes his wife, Sarah, from the convention in Austin, Texas, where the debates about joining the United States were taking place. He offers few specifics as \"Nothing in which you would take any interest has occurred here and therefore I will not say anything about the proceedings…\" In second of these letters, James is writing to a Colonel B. Rush Wallace and gets far more political in discussion and tone. He talks at length about concern over the merits of becoming Whig or Democrat once they are thrust into the existing political climate of their new nation.","Of particular interest is an 1888 letter written by Ida Carter, presumably William M. and Belle Bassett Blackley's \"Black Mamy,\" is addressed to a Col. Bassett Blackley, in care of W. M. Blackley. Carter begins the letter \"Dear Little Bassett.\" This letter seems to suggest that the Blackleys did in fact have another child, Bassett Blackley, prior to Belle. If that is the case, Bassett Blackley may have died in childhood.","Of the twentieth-century correspondence, most of it was sent or received by Chas Blackley. While his letters span most of the century, the bulk are centered between the years 1930-1944. The letters that Chas Blackley wrote while visiting Europe in 1934 are of particular interest due to the changing political climate with the rise of the Nazis in Germany. Through his correspondence, diaries, and photographs there is an opportunity to see an American view of this transformative time. In one letter to his sister, Mary, dated August 21, Chas Blackley writes of the hanging of Nazis in Vienna, Austria for a failed coup that took place mere weeks before his arrival and that it \"has retarded history making considerably.\" He also spoke of the  Heimwehr , the home guard, patrolling the streets with their rifles and \"keeping a sharp to windward.\"","Series 2: Personal Papers, 1857-2015, is comprised of personal papers, diaries, and other documents that highlight the careers and interests of the family members. R.H. Bassett's papers include Confederate government and military documents pertaining to promotions, recruitment, and resignation.","Another unique piece of this collection from the early period is the Belle Bassett Diary, 1873-1879, which offers a glimpse of the post-war years for a child growing up in the South.","Chas Blackley, in addition to his letters from the trip to Europe, also kept a diary of his experiences. This diary covers the personal and public incidents of his travels.","More information about individual members of family is available here in the form of detailed histories of specific family lines (Blackley, Bassett, Hoge, etc.), through family trees, and biographical information.","Other items of note from Chas Blackley are the many manuscripts of novels and plays that he wrote in the early-to-mid 1930s.","Series 3: Ephemera, 1856-2004, houses many unique items such as hundreds of stamps (U.S., Confederate, and international), brochures, certificates, awards, diplomas, and pamphlets from events such as the 1932 Los Angeles Olympics and the 1933 World's Fair in Chicago, and dance cards. The aforementioned diplomas and certificates document the Blackley family's achievements and graduations from various schools and universities, including the University of Virginia, the State Teacher's College at Harrisonburg, and Virginia Tech. Many of the manuals and booklets used in Chas' various military training can be found in this series.","There are also newspaper clippings that share stories directly related to family members or address significant events of the time. These include awards won by the family, news about new jobs or graduations, historic events like D-Day, and John F. Kennedy's assassination.","One of the more locally relevant pieces is a pamphlet entitled \"Dedication of the Shenandoah National Park\" (1936). It lists the planned dedication speech from President Franklin D. Roosevelt given at Big Meadows as the key event.","This series also includes one oversize box of 3D ephemeral objects. Objects of interest include a Kodak No. 2 Folding Autographic Brownie camera (1917-1926) owned by Chas Blackley and inscribed with the names of Blackley and the SS  Gertrude Kellogg , Dr. Charles Coatesworth Phillips' small leather medicine case with glass bottles that he took on house calls, several pairs of glasses, a glass plate photograph of Susie E. Phillips, and assorted World's Fair ephemera.","Stored separately are multiple flags that are likely from Chas' 1930 voyage in the Pacific. There is a large and small Japanese flag, a small Chinese [pre-communist revolution] flag, and a small Philippine national flag. An additional flag dates to WWI and features the United States flag surrounded by smaller flags of all our allies from that conflict.","Series 4, Photographs, circa 1861-1989, includes photographic prints, negatives, and slides that document the Scott, Bassett, Blackley, Hoge, Matthews, and Nix families of Texas and Staunton, Virginia. Files are arranged chronologically and undated groupings of images are listed alphabetically at the end of the series. Files are labeled to reflect the subject of the photos; original arrangement and description of people and places as received from the donor was maintained whenever possible. Some photographs contain identifying text written on the back of the image, though many photos are unidentified. ","Photographs within this series document Chas Blackley's trips to Asia and the Pacific in 1930 as well as his journey through Europe in 1934. Other photographs document the Civilian Military Training Camp (CMTC) experience at Ft. Eustis, Virginia, from 1928.","Photographs created by or picturing Catherine Matthews Blackley contain images of campus and student life at the State Teacher's College at Harrisonburg (now JMU) dating from the early 1930s.","Series 5: Scrapbooks, 1862-1931, is comprised of one scrapbook created by R.H. Bassett, and three scrapbooks created by Chas Blackley. The scrapbook created by R.H. Bassett dates from 1862-1869 and contains mostly newspaper clippings related to Bassett's work in local and state politics in Grimes County, Texas, after a wound at the Battle of Chickamauga in 1864 ended his role in the American Civil War. \nThe three remaining scrapbooks were created by Chas Blackley, and document aspects of his life in the years between 1928-1931. The CTMC and VMI scrapbook documents Chas Blackley's military training at the Citizen's Military Training Camp (CTMC) from 1927-1929 as well as his time enrolled at the Virginia Military Institute (VMI). Two scrapbooks document Chas Blackley's 1930 travels with childhood friend  George Earman throughout the Pacific and multiple Asian nations aboard the steamer SS  Gertrude Kellogg .","The series largely documents Chas Blackley's involvement with radio stations WSVA and WTON and comprises photographs, correspondence, and printed ephemera. A file concerning Susan Blackley, Chas Blackley's daughter, is included and relate to her work as the horticulturalist for the city of Staunton. Photographs document Susan's time as a bartender at H.A. Winston's in Wilmington, Delaware.","Includes newspaper clippings covering Susan's work as a horticulturist for Staunton as well as photographs of Susan as a bartender at H.A. Winston's in Wilmington, Delaware.","Includes negatives.","Includes negatives.","Comprises papers and photographs related to the immediate and extended Blackley family. Materials also concern the Fry and Matthews families.","Materials related to Eugene Fry, father of Patricia Fry Blackley.","All published monographs have been cataloged individually and placed in Special Collections' rare book collection. Catherine Matthews Blackley's  Schooma'am  yearbooks were removed and housed with the yearbook collection. They are retained due to heavy annotations.","The copyright interests in this collection have been transferred to the James Madison University Special Collections Library. For more information, contact the Special Collections Library Reference Desk (library-special@jmu.edu).","The Blackley Family Papers, 1830-2020, consists of hundreds of letters that span from 1830 to 2011; diaries; official United States, Confederate, and Texas documents; literary works; newspaper clippings; postcards; ephemera; and photographs. These papers document the related Scott, Bassett, Blackley, Hoge, Matthews, and Nix families of Texas and Staunton, Virginia.","James Madison University Libraries Special Collections","State Teachers College at Harrisonburg (Harrisonburg, Va.) -- Students","United States. War Department. Citizens' Military Training Camps","Virginia Military Institute -- Students","Confederate States of America. Army. 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For more information, contact the Special Collections Library Reference Desk (library-special@jmu.edu)."],"acqinfo_ssim":["Charles P. 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Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2001.\u003c/bibref\u003e"],"bibliography_heading_ssm":["Bibliography"],"bibliography_tesim":["Murr, Erika, L., ed.,  A Rebel Wife in Texas: The Diary and Letters of Elizabeth Scott Neblett, 1852-1864 . Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2001."],"bioghist_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe Blackley Family Papers document the related Scott, Bassett, Blackley, Hoge, and Nix families of mostly Texas and Staunton, Virginia between 1830 and 2016. James Scott (1799-1856) was a Tennessee native and former Mississippi Supreme Court chief justice who married Sarah Lane (1803-1880) and settled in Anderson, Texas. James was a prominent Texas judge who was friends with Davie Crockett. While in Mississippi and Texas, James and Sarah had six children. The eldest, Elizabeth \"Lizzie\" (1833-1917), was born in Mississippi in 1833, Sarah \"Sallie\" (1843-1914), born April 9, 1843 in Texas, and one of their brothers, Garrett (1838-1862), born in 1838, contribute the most to this collection of letters.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eLizzie married William H. Neblett (1826-1871), a farmer and attorney, in 1852. He eventually left her to go fight for the Confederacy. Her domestic struggle on the home front during the Civil War is the subject of Erika L. Murr's book, A Rebel Wife in Texas: The Diary and Letters of Elizabeth Scott Neblett, 1852-1864 (2001).\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eIn 1862, Sallie married Robert Houston \"R.H.\" Bassett (1836-1870). R.H. went on to enlist and serve in the famed Hood's Texas Brigade from 1861 to his wounding in 1864. He worked briefly as the adjutant general to Major General John Bell. While leading the regiment, he was wounded at the Battle of Chickamauga by an artillery shell fragment that lodged in his shoulder. This would effectively end his role in the war. Following the conclusion of the conflict and his recovery from the wound, R.H. tried his hand at politics in a bid to represent Grimes County, Texas in Congress. Their first child, Robert, died tragically in 1864 at only eight months old. R.H. died in 1870 because of health complications that appear related to edema.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eR.H.'s brother, Noah (1839-1886), also served in the Texas Brigade. The correspondence between R.H., Sallie, and Noah provides a lucid account of the Army of Northern Virginia's major campaigns and operations, including developments related to the Battles of Antietam, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, and Chickamauga.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eGarrett Scott, Sallie Scott's brother, died in action at the Battle of Antietam September 17, 1862 while serving in the Texas Brigade. His letters from the early years of the war offer yet another perspective of campaign and camp life.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eR.H. and Sallie's daughter, Barbara \"Belle\" Bassett (1865-1958), married William Mason Blackley (1863-1898) in 1884 and lived in Staunton, Virginia before moving to Washington, D.C. Research suggests they only had one child, Belle Blackley (1890-1967), whom never married and lived out her life in Washington, D.C. However, an 1888 letter contained in this collection written by Ida Carter, the Blackley's \"Black Mamy,\" is addressed to a Col. Bassett Blackley, in care of W. M. Blackley. Carter begins the letter \"Dear Little Bassett.\" This letter seems to suggest that the Blackleys did in fact have another child, Bassett Blackley, prior to Belle. If that is the case, Bassett Blackley may have died in childhood.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThe bulk of the twentieth-century material was created by or concerns William Mason Blackley's nephew, Charles \"Chas\" Phillips Blackley Sr. (1909-1999), his wife Catherine Matthews Blackley (1914-2010), and their son and daughter-in-law Charles \"Chuck\" Phillips Blackley (b. 1951) and Patricia Fry Blackley (b. 1952).\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eCharles \"Chas\" Phillips Blackley Sr. was born in Staunton, Virginia in 1909. His parents died from the Spanish Flu when he was 10. Their deaths required Chas and his sister Mary Gilkeson Blackley to move in with their aunt, Fannie Blackley Cushing in Staunton. These materials cover his travels throughout the Pacific and Asia aboard a \"tramp steamer\" with boyhood friend, George Earman in 1930, his 1927-1929 military training in the little discussed Citizens Military Training Camps (CMTC), time at the Virginia Military Institute (VMI), his 1934 travels in Europe, World War II military service, and ownership and operation of WSVA, the first radio station in Harrisonburg, Virginia. Chas sold his share in WSVA and moved to Staunton, Virginia where he started the WTON radio station. Beyond his official jobs, Chas spent much of the early 1930s as an amateur playwright and author. Chas and Catherine Matthews were married in 1938.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eWhile traveling Europe via train in 1934, Chas met David Kahn, a young Presbyterian judge of Indian descent. They would become lifelong friends. Mr. Kahn went on to become a governor of an Indian province under British rule and later head the Department of Sanitation for Calcutta. He and his wife visited their children, who had moved to the United States, and Mr. and Mrs. Blackley often until his health would not allow it. Evidence of their lifelong friendship can be found most clearly in this collection's correspondence and photographs.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eChas' WWII experience saw him drafted at age 35 and shipped to Camp Crowder, Missouri for training. He would eventually be transferred to Washington, D.C. where he worked as a private in the basement of the Pentagon. According this son, his superiors frequently called him upstairs to request autographed photos of American Broadcasting Company (ABC) celebrities. He was able to oblige them because of WSVA's status as an ABC affiliate.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eCatherine Matthews Blackley was originally from Cambridge, Maryland and came to the Shenandoah Valley to attend the State Teacher's College at Harrisonburg (now James Madison University). She graduated in 1935 with a degree in home economics. For a short time she taught in Norfolk, Virginia before marrying Chas Blackley in 1938 and buying a home on Port Republic Road in Harrisonburg. After Chas was drafted and shipped to Camp Crowder, Mrs. Blackley traveled to Neosho, Missouri to be with her husband. While in Missouri, she volunteered with the Red Cross to help care for wounded soldiers. She continued this service after Mr. Blackley was transferred to Washington, D.C. After the war, they returned to the Valley and Catherine became a member of the Staunton School Board and was very active in volunteer work.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eCharles \"Chuck\" Phillips Blackley Jr. was a professional engineer and graduate of Virginia Tech. He provided services in Virginia, West Virginia, and Maryland. Chuck married Patricia Fry in 1971. At the time he sold his office it was the largest engineering company in the region outside of Richmond, Roanoke, and Northern Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003ePatricia Fry Blackley graduated from James Madison University in 1987 and became a licensed real estate appraiser. After Chuck stepped away from his engineering office he teamed up with his wife and the couple became full-time photographers and writers. Their work can be found in hundreds of magazines, books, and calendars.\u003c/p\u003e"],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biographical / Historical"],"bioghist_tesim":["The Blackley Family Papers document the related Scott, Bassett, Blackley, Hoge, and Nix families of mostly Texas and Staunton, Virginia between 1830 and 2016. James Scott (1799-1856) was a Tennessee native and former Mississippi Supreme Court chief justice who married Sarah Lane (1803-1880) and settled in Anderson, Texas. James was a prominent Texas judge who was friends with Davie Crockett. While in Mississippi and Texas, James and Sarah had six children. The eldest, Elizabeth \"Lizzie\" (1833-1917), was born in Mississippi in 1833, Sarah \"Sallie\" (1843-1914), born April 9, 1843 in Texas, and one of their brothers, Garrett (1838-1862), born in 1838, contribute the most to this collection of letters.","Lizzie married William H. Neblett (1826-1871), a farmer and attorney, in 1852. He eventually left her to go fight for the Confederacy. Her domestic struggle on the home front during the Civil War is the subject of Erika L. Murr's book, A Rebel Wife in Texas: The Diary and Letters of Elizabeth Scott Neblett, 1852-1864 (2001).","In 1862, Sallie married Robert Houston \"R.H.\" Bassett (1836-1870). R.H. went on to enlist and serve in the famed Hood's Texas Brigade from 1861 to his wounding in 1864. He worked briefly as the adjutant general to Major General John Bell. While leading the regiment, he was wounded at the Battle of Chickamauga by an artillery shell fragment that lodged in his shoulder. This would effectively end his role in the war. Following the conclusion of the conflict and his recovery from the wound, R.H. tried his hand at politics in a bid to represent Grimes County, Texas in Congress. Their first child, Robert, died tragically in 1864 at only eight months old. R.H. died in 1870 because of health complications that appear related to edema.","R.H.'s brother, Noah (1839-1886), also served in the Texas Brigade. The correspondence between R.H., Sallie, and Noah provides a lucid account of the Army of Northern Virginia's major campaigns and operations, including developments related to the Battles of Antietam, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, and Chickamauga.","Garrett Scott, Sallie Scott's brother, died in action at the Battle of Antietam September 17, 1862 while serving in the Texas Brigade. His letters from the early years of the war offer yet another perspective of campaign and camp life.","R.H. and Sallie's daughter, Barbara \"Belle\" Bassett (1865-1958), married William Mason Blackley (1863-1898) in 1884 and lived in Staunton, Virginia before moving to Washington, D.C. Research suggests they only had one child, Belle Blackley (1890-1967), whom never married and lived out her life in Washington, D.C. However, an 1888 letter contained in this collection written by Ida Carter, the Blackley's \"Black Mamy,\" is addressed to a Col. Bassett Blackley, in care of W. M. Blackley. Carter begins the letter \"Dear Little Bassett.\" This letter seems to suggest that the Blackleys did in fact have another child, Bassett Blackley, prior to Belle. If that is the case, Bassett Blackley may have died in childhood.","The bulk of the twentieth-century material was created by or concerns William Mason Blackley's nephew, Charles \"Chas\" Phillips Blackley Sr. (1909-1999), his wife Catherine Matthews Blackley (1914-2010), and their son and daughter-in-law Charles \"Chuck\" Phillips Blackley (b. 1951) and Patricia Fry Blackley (b. 1952).","Charles \"Chas\" Phillips Blackley Sr. was born in Staunton, Virginia in 1909. His parents died from the Spanish Flu when he was 10. Their deaths required Chas and his sister Mary Gilkeson Blackley to move in with their aunt, Fannie Blackley Cushing in Staunton. These materials cover his travels throughout the Pacific and Asia aboard a \"tramp steamer\" with boyhood friend, George Earman in 1930, his 1927-1929 military training in the little discussed Citizens Military Training Camps (CMTC), time at the Virginia Military Institute (VMI), his 1934 travels in Europe, World War II military service, and ownership and operation of WSVA, the first radio station in Harrisonburg, Virginia. Chas sold his share in WSVA and moved to Staunton, Virginia where he started the WTON radio station. Beyond his official jobs, Chas spent much of the early 1930s as an amateur playwright and author. Chas and Catherine Matthews were married in 1938.","While traveling Europe via train in 1934, Chas met David Kahn, a young Presbyterian judge of Indian descent. They would become lifelong friends. Mr. Kahn went on to become a governor of an Indian province under British rule and later head the Department of Sanitation for Calcutta. He and his wife visited their children, who had moved to the United States, and Mr. and Mrs. Blackley often until his health would not allow it. Evidence of their lifelong friendship can be found most clearly in this collection's correspondence and photographs.","Chas' WWII experience saw him drafted at age 35 and shipped to Camp Crowder, Missouri for training. He would eventually be transferred to Washington, D.C. where he worked as a private in the basement of the Pentagon. According this son, his superiors frequently called him upstairs to request autographed photos of American Broadcasting Company (ABC) celebrities. He was able to oblige them because of WSVA's status as an ABC affiliate.","Catherine Matthews Blackley was originally from Cambridge, Maryland and came to the Shenandoah Valley to attend the State Teacher's College at Harrisonburg (now James Madison University). She graduated in 1935 with a degree in home economics. For a short time she taught in Norfolk, Virginia before marrying Chas Blackley in 1938 and buying a home on Port Republic Road in Harrisonburg. After Chas was drafted and shipped to Camp Crowder, Mrs. Blackley traveled to Neosho, Missouri to be with her husband. While in Missouri, she volunteered with the Red Cross to help care for wounded soldiers. She continued this service after Mr. Blackley was transferred to Washington, D.C. After the war, they returned to the Valley and Catherine became a member of the Staunton School Board and was very active in volunteer work.","Charles \"Chuck\" Phillips Blackley Jr. was a professional engineer and graduate of Virginia Tech. He provided services in Virginia, West Virginia, and Maryland. Chuck married Patricia Fry in 1971. At the time he sold his office it was the largest engineering company in the region outside of Richmond, Roanoke, and Northern Virginia.","Patricia Fry Blackley graduated from James Madison University in 1987 and became a licensed real estate appraiser. After Chuck stepped away from his engineering office he teamed up with his wife and the couple became full-time photographers and writers. Their work can be found in hundreds of magazines, books, and calendars."],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003e[identification of item], [box #, folder #], Blackley Family Papers, 1830-2020, SC 0232, Special Collections, Carrier Library, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA.\u003c/p\u003e"],"prefercite_tesim":["[identification of item], [box #, folder #], Blackley Family Papers, 1830-2020, SC 0232, Special Collections, Carrier Library, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA."],"processinfo_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe collection as a whole required only limited preservation treatment. Some of the correspondence and papers did require Mylar sleeves. The 3D objects are housed together in one box with special housings created to protect them long-term. Most of the nineteenth-century letters required flattening to make them more accessible and to allow for proper digitization as per the donor agreement. Also, many of the diplomas and older photographs were removed from their frames for proper storage. Original order of materials was maintained wherever possible, taking into account provenance, storage needs, and accessibility for researchers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePhotographs and cabinet cards were removed from a leather photo album with \"Fannie S. Blackley Session 1881-'82\" embossed on the front cover. Some of the cabinet cards were identified with a Post-It note. Those identifications were written in pencil on the back of the cabinet cards. The photo album was not retained due to significant condition issues.\u003c/p\u003e"],"processinfo_heading_ssm":["Processing Information","Processing Information"],"processinfo_tesim":["The collection as a whole required only limited preservation treatment. Some of the correspondence and papers did require Mylar sleeves. The 3D objects are housed together in one box with special housings created to protect them long-term. Most of the nineteenth-century letters required flattening to make them more accessible and to allow for proper digitization as per the donor agreement. Also, many of the diplomas and older photographs were removed from their frames for proper storage. Original order of materials was maintained wherever possible, taking into account provenance, storage needs, and accessibility for researchers.","Photographs and cabinet cards were removed from a leather photo album with \"Fannie S. Blackley Session 1881-'82\" embossed on the front cover. Some of the cabinet cards were identified with a Post-It note. Those identifications were written in pencil on the back of the cabinet cards. The photo album was not retained due to significant condition issues."],"relatedmaterial_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003e\u003cextref type=\"simple\" actuate=\"onRequest\" show=\"new\" href=\"http://archivesspace.vmi.edu/repositories/3/resources/780\"\u003eCharles C. Phillips Civil War Papers. MS 0327. Virginia Military Institute Archives.\u003c/extref\u003e  \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eMurr, Erika, L., ed., \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eA Rebel Wife in Texas: The Diary and Letters of Elizabeth Scott Neblett, 1852-1864\u003c/emph\u003e. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2001.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\u003cextref type=\"simple\" actuate=\"onRequest\" show=\"new\" href=\"http://www.lib.utexas.edu/taro/utcah/00426/cah-00426.html\"\u003eLizzie Scott Neblett Papers, 1848-1935, Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, The University of Texas at Austin.\u003c/extref\u003e \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eYourself and family are invited to attend the feast of Mondamin corn festival\u003c/emph\u003e. n.p.: Staunton, Va.: J. Harry Drechsler, pr., [1890], 1890. JAMES MADISON UNIV's Catalog, EBSCOhost (accessed May 2, 2017).\u003c/p\u003e"],"relatedmaterial_heading_ssm":["Related Material"],"relatedmaterial_tesim":["Charles C. Phillips Civil War Papers. MS 0327. Virginia Military Institute Archives.","Murr, Erika, L., ed.,  A Rebel Wife in Texas: The Diary and Letters of Elizabeth Scott Neblett, 1852-1864 . Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2001.","Lizzie Scott Neblett Papers, 1848-1935, Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, The University of Texas at Austin.","Yourself and family are invited to attend the feast of Mondamin corn festival . n.p.: Staunton, Va.: J. Harry Drechsler, pr., [1890], 1890. JAMES MADISON UNIV's Catalog, EBSCOhost (accessed May 2, 2017)."],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe Blackley Family Papers, 1830-2020, consists of hundreds of letters that span from 1830 to 2011; diaries; official United States, Confederate, and Texas documents; literary works; newspaper clippings; postcards; ephemera; and photographs. These papers document the related Scott, Bassett, Blackley, Hoge, Matthews, and Nix families of Texas and Staunton, Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 1: Correspondence, 1830-2011, is comprised of more than 300 individual letters. The majority of the earlier ones involve Sarah \"Sallie\" Scott Bassett and/or her husband R.H. Bassett. Together their combined correspondence comprises eight folders and spans the years 1850-1913.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThese letters cover the years of the American Civil War and shed light on how the conflict affected their lives. In addition to letters from Captain R.H. Bassett, there are dozens of notes written home to Sallie from her brother Garrett Scott, brother-in-law Noah Bassett, and her cousin John Nix. All of these men spent time serving in the 4th Texas Regiment of the famed Texas Brigade. While their letters contain minimal military focused discussions, they do highlight camp life, personal struggles of being separated from each other, personal and public incidents, and family news. The military discussion is really limited to mention of the dead and wounded from battles and engagements. However, R.H. does write a letter to Sallie as he arrives on the battlefield at Gettysburg. He expresses excitement to build off the Confederates successes that afternoon. Battles and engagements discussed include Antietam (September 17, 1862), Chancellorsville (April 30 to May 6, 1863), Gettysburg (July 1-3, 1863), and Chickamauga (September 18–20, 1863).\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eLizzie Scott Neblett was the older sister of Sallie Bassett and many letters between the sisters not previously examined, both before and after the American Civil War, can be found within this collection. Their letters shed light on relationship struggles, farm life, local news, and family connections.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eWhile few in number, the surviving letters of Lizzie and Sallie's father, James Scott, provide significant insight into Texas prior to its in 1846. In the first, James writes his wife, Sarah, from the convention in Austin, Texas, where the debates about joining the United States were taking place. He offers few specifics as \"Nothing in which you would take any interest has occurred here and therefore I will not say anything about the proceedings…\" In second of these letters, James is writing to a Colonel B. Rush Wallace and gets far more political in discussion and tone. He talks at length about concern over the merits of becoming Whig or Democrat once they are thrust into the existing political climate of their new nation.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eOf particular interest is an 1888 letter written by Ida Carter, presumably William M. and Belle Bassett Blackley's \"Black Mamy,\" is addressed to a Col. Bassett Blackley, in care of W. M. Blackley. Carter begins the letter \"Dear Little Bassett.\" This letter seems to suggest that the Blackleys did in fact have another child, Bassett Blackley, prior to Belle. If that is the case, Bassett Blackley may have died in childhood.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eOf the twentieth-century correspondence, most of it was sent or received by Chas Blackley. While his letters span most of the century, the bulk are centered between the years 1930-1944. The letters that Chas Blackley wrote while visiting Europe in 1934 are of particular interest due to the changing political climate with the rise of the Nazis in Germany. Through his correspondence, diaries, and photographs there is an opportunity to see an American view of this transformative time. In one letter to his sister, Mary, dated August 21, Chas Blackley writes of the hanging of Nazis in Vienna, Austria for a failed coup that took place mere weeks before his arrival and that it \"has retarded history making considerably.\" He also spoke of the \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eHeimwehr\u003c/emph\u003e, the home guard, patrolling the streets with their rifles and \"keeping a sharp to windward.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 2: Personal Papers, 1857-2015, is comprised of personal papers, diaries, and other documents that highlight the careers and interests of the family members. R.H. Bassett's papers include Confederate government and military documents pertaining to promotions, recruitment, and resignation.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eAnother unique piece of this collection from the early period is the Belle Bassett Diary, 1873-1879, which offers a glimpse of the post-war years for a child growing up in the South.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eChas Blackley, in addition to his letters from the trip to Europe, also kept a diary of his experiences. This diary covers the personal and public incidents of his travels.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eMore information about individual members of family is available here in the form of detailed histories of specific family lines (Blackley, Bassett, Hoge, etc.), through family trees, and biographical information.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eOther items of note from Chas Blackley are the many manuscripts of novels and plays that he wrote in the early-to-mid 1930s.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 3: Ephemera, 1856-2004, houses many unique items such as hundreds of stamps (U.S., Confederate, and international), brochures, certificates, awards, diplomas, and pamphlets from events such as the 1932 Los Angeles Olympics and the 1933 World's Fair in Chicago, and dance cards. The aforementioned diplomas and certificates document the Blackley family's achievements and graduations from various schools and universities, including the University of Virginia, the State Teacher's College at Harrisonburg, and Virginia Tech. Many of the manuals and booklets used in Chas' various military training can be found in this series.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThere are also newspaper clippings that share stories directly related to family members or address significant events of the time. These include awards won by the family, news about new jobs or graduations, historic events like D-Day, and John F. Kennedy's assassination.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eOne of the more locally relevant pieces is a pamphlet entitled \"Dedication of the Shenandoah National Park\" (1936). It lists the planned dedication speech from President Franklin D. Roosevelt given at Big Meadows as the key event.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThis series also includes one oversize box of 3D ephemeral objects. Objects of interest include a Kodak No. 2 Folding Autographic Brownie camera (1917-1926) owned by Chas Blackley and inscribed with the names of Blackley and the SS \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eGertrude Kellogg\u003c/emph\u003e, Dr. Charles Coatesworth Phillips' small leather medicine case with glass bottles that he took on house calls, several pairs of glasses, a glass plate photograph of Susie E. Phillips, and assorted World's Fair ephemera.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eStored separately are multiple flags that are likely from Chas' 1930 voyage in the Pacific. There is a large and small Japanese flag, a small Chinese [pre-communist revolution] flag, and a small Philippine national flag. An additional flag dates to WWI and features the United States flag surrounded by smaller flags of all our allies from that conflict.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 4, Photographs, circa 1861-1989, includes photographic prints, negatives, and slides that document the Scott, Bassett, Blackley, Hoge, Matthews, and Nix families of Texas and Staunton, Virginia. Files are arranged chronologically and undated groupings of images are listed alphabetically at the end of the series. Files are labeled to reflect the subject of the photos; original arrangement and description of people and places as received from the donor was maintained whenever possible. Some photographs contain identifying text written on the back of the image, though many photos are unidentified. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003ePhotographs within this series document Chas Blackley's trips to Asia and the Pacific in 1930 as well as his journey through Europe in 1934. Other photographs document the Civilian Military Training Camp (CMTC) experience at Ft. Eustis, Virginia, from 1928.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003ePhotographs created by or picturing Catherine Matthews Blackley contain images of campus and student life at the State Teacher's College at Harrisonburg (now JMU) dating from the early 1930s.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 5: Scrapbooks, 1862-1931, is comprised of one scrapbook created by R.H. Bassett, and three scrapbooks created by Chas Blackley. The scrapbook created by R.H. Bassett dates from 1862-1869 and contains mostly newspaper clippings related to Bassett's work in local and state politics in Grimes County, Texas, after a wound at the Battle of Chickamauga in 1864 ended his role in the American Civil War. \nThe three remaining scrapbooks were created by Chas Blackley, and document aspects of his life in the years between 1928-1931. The CTMC and VMI scrapbook documents Chas Blackley's military training at the Citizen's Military Training Camp (CTMC) from 1927-1929 as well as his time enrolled at the Virginia Military Institute (VMI). Two scrapbooks document Chas Blackley's 1930 travels with childhood friend  George Earman throughout the Pacific and multiple Asian nations aboard the steamer SS \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eGertrude Kellogg\u003c/emph\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe series largely documents Chas Blackley's involvement with radio stations WSVA and WTON and comprises photographs, correspondence, and printed ephemera. A file concerning Susan Blackley, Chas Blackley's daughter, is included and relate to her work as the horticulturalist for the city of Staunton. Photographs document Susan's time as a bartender at H.A. Winston's in Wilmington, Delaware.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes newspaper clippings covering Susan's work as a horticulturist for Staunton as well as photographs of Susan as a bartender at H.A. Winston's in Wilmington, Delaware.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes negatives.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes negatives.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eComprises papers and photographs related to the immediate and extended Blackley family. Materials also concern the Fry and Matthews families.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMaterials related to Eugene Fry, father of Patricia Fry Blackley.\u003c/p\u003e"],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Content","Scope and Contents","Scope and Content","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents"],"scopecontent_tesim":["The Blackley Family Papers, 1830-2020, consists of hundreds of letters that span from 1830 to 2011; diaries; official United States, Confederate, and Texas documents; literary works; newspaper clippings; postcards; ephemera; and photographs. These papers document the related Scott, Bassett, Blackley, Hoge, Matthews, and Nix families of Texas and Staunton, Virginia.","Series 1: Correspondence, 1830-2011, is comprised of more than 300 individual letters. The majority of the earlier ones involve Sarah \"Sallie\" Scott Bassett and/or her husband R.H. Bassett. Together their combined correspondence comprises eight folders and spans the years 1850-1913.","These letters cover the years of the American Civil War and shed light on how the conflict affected their lives. In addition to letters from Captain R.H. Bassett, there are dozens of notes written home to Sallie from her brother Garrett Scott, brother-in-law Noah Bassett, and her cousin John Nix. All of these men spent time serving in the 4th Texas Regiment of the famed Texas Brigade. While their letters contain minimal military focused discussions, they do highlight camp life, personal struggles of being separated from each other, personal and public incidents, and family news. The military discussion is really limited to mention of the dead and wounded from battles and engagements. However, R.H. does write a letter to Sallie as he arrives on the battlefield at Gettysburg. He expresses excitement to build off the Confederates successes that afternoon. Battles and engagements discussed include Antietam (September 17, 1862), Chancellorsville (April 30 to May 6, 1863), Gettysburg (July 1-3, 1863), and Chickamauga (September 18–20, 1863).","Lizzie Scott Neblett was the older sister of Sallie Bassett and many letters between the sisters not previously examined, both before and after the American Civil War, can be found within this collection. Their letters shed light on relationship struggles, farm life, local news, and family connections.","While few in number, the surviving letters of Lizzie and Sallie's father, James Scott, provide significant insight into Texas prior to its in 1846. In the first, James writes his wife, Sarah, from the convention in Austin, Texas, where the debates about joining the United States were taking place. He offers few specifics as \"Nothing in which you would take any interest has occurred here and therefore I will not say anything about the proceedings…\" In second of these letters, James is writing to a Colonel B. Rush Wallace and gets far more political in discussion and tone. He talks at length about concern over the merits of becoming Whig or Democrat once they are thrust into the existing political climate of their new nation.","Of particular interest is an 1888 letter written by Ida Carter, presumably William M. and Belle Bassett Blackley's \"Black Mamy,\" is addressed to a Col. Bassett Blackley, in care of W. M. Blackley. Carter begins the letter \"Dear Little Bassett.\" This letter seems to suggest that the Blackleys did in fact have another child, Bassett Blackley, prior to Belle. If that is the case, Bassett Blackley may have died in childhood.","Of the twentieth-century correspondence, most of it was sent or received by Chas Blackley. While his letters span most of the century, the bulk are centered between the years 1930-1944. The letters that Chas Blackley wrote while visiting Europe in 1934 are of particular interest due to the changing political climate with the rise of the Nazis in Germany. Through his correspondence, diaries, and photographs there is an opportunity to see an American view of this transformative time. In one letter to his sister, Mary, dated August 21, Chas Blackley writes of the hanging of Nazis in Vienna, Austria for a failed coup that took place mere weeks before his arrival and that it \"has retarded history making considerably.\" He also spoke of the  Heimwehr , the home guard, patrolling the streets with their rifles and \"keeping a sharp to windward.\"","Series 2: Personal Papers, 1857-2015, is comprised of personal papers, diaries, and other documents that highlight the careers and interests of the family members. R.H. Bassett's papers include Confederate government and military documents pertaining to promotions, recruitment, and resignation.","Another unique piece of this collection from the early period is the Belle Bassett Diary, 1873-1879, which offers a glimpse of the post-war years for a child growing up in the South.","Chas Blackley, in addition to his letters from the trip to Europe, also kept a diary of his experiences. This diary covers the personal and public incidents of his travels.","More information about individual members of family is available here in the form of detailed histories of specific family lines (Blackley, Bassett, Hoge, etc.), through family trees, and biographical information.","Other items of note from Chas Blackley are the many manuscripts of novels and plays that he wrote in the early-to-mid 1930s.","Series 3: Ephemera, 1856-2004, houses many unique items such as hundreds of stamps (U.S., Confederate, and international), brochures, certificates, awards, diplomas, and pamphlets from events such as the 1932 Los Angeles Olympics and the 1933 World's Fair in Chicago, and dance cards. The aforementioned diplomas and certificates document the Blackley family's achievements and graduations from various schools and universities, including the University of Virginia, the State Teacher's College at Harrisonburg, and Virginia Tech. Many of the manuals and booklets used in Chas' various military training can be found in this series.","There are also newspaper clippings that share stories directly related to family members or address significant events of the time. These include awards won by the family, news about new jobs or graduations, historic events like D-Day, and John F. Kennedy's assassination.","One of the more locally relevant pieces is a pamphlet entitled \"Dedication of the Shenandoah National Park\" (1936). It lists the planned dedication speech from President Franklin D. Roosevelt given at Big Meadows as the key event.","This series also includes one oversize box of 3D ephemeral objects. Objects of interest include a Kodak No. 2 Folding Autographic Brownie camera (1917-1926) owned by Chas Blackley and inscribed with the names of Blackley and the SS  Gertrude Kellogg , Dr. Charles Coatesworth Phillips' small leather medicine case with glass bottles that he took on house calls, several pairs of glasses, a glass plate photograph of Susie E. Phillips, and assorted World's Fair ephemera.","Stored separately are multiple flags that are likely from Chas' 1930 voyage in the Pacific. There is a large and small Japanese flag, a small Chinese [pre-communist revolution] flag, and a small Philippine national flag. An additional flag dates to WWI and features the United States flag surrounded by smaller flags of all our allies from that conflict.","Series 4, Photographs, circa 1861-1989, includes photographic prints, negatives, and slides that document the Scott, Bassett, Blackley, Hoge, Matthews, and Nix families of Texas and Staunton, Virginia. Files are arranged chronologically and undated groupings of images are listed alphabetically at the end of the series. Files are labeled to reflect the subject of the photos; original arrangement and description of people and places as received from the donor was maintained whenever possible. Some photographs contain identifying text written on the back of the image, though many photos are unidentified. ","Photographs within this series document Chas Blackley's trips to Asia and the Pacific in 1930 as well as his journey through Europe in 1934. Other photographs document the Civilian Military Training Camp (CMTC) experience at Ft. Eustis, Virginia, from 1928.","Photographs created by or picturing Catherine Matthews Blackley contain images of campus and student life at the State Teacher's College at Harrisonburg (now JMU) dating from the early 1930s.","Series 5: Scrapbooks, 1862-1931, is comprised of one scrapbook created by R.H. Bassett, and three scrapbooks created by Chas Blackley. The scrapbook created by R.H. Bassett dates from 1862-1869 and contains mostly newspaper clippings related to Bassett's work in local and state politics in Grimes County, Texas, after a wound at the Battle of Chickamauga in 1864 ended his role in the American Civil War. \nThe three remaining scrapbooks were created by Chas Blackley, and document aspects of his life in the years between 1928-1931. The CTMC and VMI scrapbook documents Chas Blackley's military training at the Citizen's Military Training Camp (CTMC) from 1927-1929 as well as his time enrolled at the Virginia Military Institute (VMI). Two scrapbooks document Chas Blackley's 1930 travels with childhood friend  George Earman throughout the Pacific and multiple Asian nations aboard the steamer SS  Gertrude Kellogg .","The series largely documents Chas Blackley's involvement with radio stations WSVA and WTON and comprises photographs, correspondence, and printed ephemera. A file concerning Susan Blackley, Chas Blackley's daughter, is included and relate to her work as the horticulturalist for the city of Staunton. Photographs document Susan's time as a bartender at H.A. Winston's in Wilmington, Delaware.","Includes newspaper clippings covering Susan's work as a horticulturist for Staunton as well as photographs of Susan as a bartender at H.A. Winston's in Wilmington, Delaware.","Includes negatives.","Includes negatives.","Comprises papers and photographs related to the immediate and extended Blackley family. Materials also concern the Fry and Matthews families.","Materials related to Eugene Fry, father of Patricia Fry Blackley."],"separatedmaterial_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eAll published monographs have been cataloged individually and placed in Special Collections' rare book collection. Catherine Matthews Blackley's \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eSchooma'am\u003c/emph\u003e yearbooks were removed and housed with the yearbook collection. They are retained due to heavy annotations.\u003c/p\u003e"],"separatedmaterial_heading_ssm":["Separated Material"],"separatedmaterial_tesim":["All published monographs have been cataloged individually and placed in Special Collections' rare book collection. Catherine Matthews Blackley's  Schooma'am  yearbooks were removed and housed with the yearbook collection. They are retained due to heavy annotations."],"userestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe copyright interests in this collection have been transferred to the James Madison University Special Collections Library. For more information, contact the Special Collections Library Reference Desk (library-special@jmu.edu).\u003c/p\u003e"],"userestrict_heading_ssm":["Conditions Governing Use"],"userestrict_tesim":["The copyright interests in this collection have been transferred to the James Madison University Special Collections Library. For more information, contact the Special Collections Library Reference Desk (library-special@jmu.edu)."],"abstract_html_tesm":["\u003cabstract id=\"aspace_e73d9f92cf4c9d321a4666b26feddd80\"\u003eThe Blackley Family Papers, 1830-2020, consists of hundreds of letters that span from 1830 to 2011; diaries; official United States, Confederate, and Texas documents; literary works; newspaper clippings; postcards; ephemera; and photographs. These papers document the related Scott, Bassett, Blackley, Hoge, Matthews, and Nix families of Texas and Staunton, Virginia.\u003c/abstract\u003e"],"abstract_tesim":["The Blackley Family Papers, 1830-2020, consists of hundreds of letters that span from 1830 to 2011; diaries; official United States, Confederate, and Texas documents; literary works; newspaper clippings; postcards; ephemera; and photographs. These papers document the related Scott, Bassett, Blackley, Hoge, Matthews, and Nix families of Texas and Staunton, Virginia."],"names_coll_ssim":["State Teachers College at Harrisonburg (Harrisonburg, Va.) -- Students","United States. War Department. Citizens' Military Training Camps","Virginia Military Institute -- Students","Confederate States of America. Army. Texas Brigade","Virginia Polytechnic Institute -- Students","Blackley, Chuck","Blackley, Pat","Blackley, Chuck"],"names_ssim":["James Madison University Libraries Special Collections","State Teachers College at Harrisonburg (Harrisonburg, Va.) -- Students","United States. War Department. Citizens' Military Training Camps","Virginia Military Institute -- Students","Confederate States of America. Army. 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Collection is open for research with the exception of one file contained within the correspondence series that is restricted until January 1, 2035 at the request of the donor.","Access to original media, photographic negatives, and slides contained within this collection is restricted; reformatted access copies of these materials may exist, or researchers may request digital access copies be made.","Please contact the Special Collections Reference Desk before visiting the James Madison University Special Collections Library to use this collection (library-special@jmu.edu).","File is restricted from research use until January 1, 2035 at the request of the donor.","Access to original photographic negatives contained within this collection is restricted; reformatted access copies of these materials may exist, or researchers may contact library-special@jmu.edu to request reformatted access copies.","Digital images of nineteenth-century correspondence and papers are available upon request.","Duplicates and out of scope materials were returned to the donor.","Duplicates and out of scope materials were returned to the donor.","The collection is arranged in seven series:","Correspondence, 1830-2011 Personal Papers, 1857-2016 Ephemera, 1856-2004 Photographs, circa 1861-1989 Scrapbooks, 1862-1931 2020-0121 Accession, 1930s-2019 2020-0702 Accession, 1882-2020","Murr, Erika, L., ed.,  A Rebel Wife in Texas: The Diary and Letters of Elizabeth Scott Neblett, 1852-1864 . Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2001.","The Blackley Family Papers document the related Scott, Bassett, Blackley, Hoge, and Nix families of mostly Texas and Staunton, Virginia between 1830 and 2016. James Scott (1799-1856) was a Tennessee native and former Mississippi Supreme Court chief justice who married Sarah Lane (1803-1880) and settled in Anderson, Texas. James was a prominent Texas judge who was friends with Davie Crockett. While in Mississippi and Texas, James and Sarah had six children. The eldest, Elizabeth \"Lizzie\" (1833-1917), was born in Mississippi in 1833, Sarah \"Sallie\" (1843-1914), born April 9, 1843 in Texas, and one of their brothers, Garrett (1838-1862), born in 1838, contribute the most to this collection of letters.","Lizzie married William H. Neblett (1826-1871), a farmer and attorney, in 1852. He eventually left her to go fight for the Confederacy. Her domestic struggle on the home front during the Civil War is the subject of Erika L. Murr's book, A Rebel Wife in Texas: The Diary and Letters of Elizabeth Scott Neblett, 1852-1864 (2001).","In 1862, Sallie married Robert Houston \"R.H.\" Bassett (1836-1870). R.H. went on to enlist and serve in the famed Hood's Texas Brigade from 1861 to his wounding in 1864. He worked briefly as the adjutant general to Major General John Bell. While leading the regiment, he was wounded at the Battle of Chickamauga by an artillery shell fragment that lodged in his shoulder. This would effectively end his role in the war. Following the conclusion of the conflict and his recovery from the wound, R.H. tried his hand at politics in a bid to represent Grimes County, Texas in Congress. Their first child, Robert, died tragically in 1864 at only eight months old. R.H. died in 1870 because of health complications that appear related to edema.","R.H.'s brother, Noah (1839-1886), also served in the Texas Brigade. The correspondence between R.H., Sallie, and Noah provides a lucid account of the Army of Northern Virginia's major campaigns and operations, including developments related to the Battles of Antietam, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, and Chickamauga.","Garrett Scott, Sallie Scott's brother, died in action at the Battle of Antietam September 17, 1862 while serving in the Texas Brigade. His letters from the early years of the war offer yet another perspective of campaign and camp life.","R.H. and Sallie's daughter, Barbara \"Belle\" Bassett (1865-1958), married William Mason Blackley (1863-1898) in 1884 and lived in Staunton, Virginia before moving to Washington, D.C. Research suggests they only had one child, Belle Blackley (1890-1967), whom never married and lived out her life in Washington, D.C. However, an 1888 letter contained in this collection written by Ida Carter, the Blackley's \"Black Mamy,\" is addressed to a Col. Bassett Blackley, in care of W. M. Blackley. Carter begins the letter \"Dear Little Bassett.\" This letter seems to suggest that the Blackleys did in fact have another child, Bassett Blackley, prior to Belle. If that is the case, Bassett Blackley may have died in childhood.","The bulk of the twentieth-century material was created by or concerns William Mason Blackley's nephew, Charles \"Chas\" Phillips Blackley Sr. (1909-1999), his wife Catherine Matthews Blackley (1914-2010), and their son and daughter-in-law Charles \"Chuck\" Phillips Blackley (b. 1951) and Patricia Fry Blackley (b. 1952).","Charles \"Chas\" Phillips Blackley Sr. was born in Staunton, Virginia in 1909. His parents died from the Spanish Flu when he was 10. Their deaths required Chas and his sister Mary Gilkeson Blackley to move in with their aunt, Fannie Blackley Cushing in Staunton. These materials cover his travels throughout the Pacific and Asia aboard a \"tramp steamer\" with boyhood friend, George Earman in 1930, his 1927-1929 military training in the little discussed Citizens Military Training Camps (CMTC), time at the Virginia Military Institute (VMI), his 1934 travels in Europe, World War II military service, and ownership and operation of WSVA, the first radio station in Harrisonburg, Virginia. Chas sold his share in WSVA and moved to Staunton, Virginia where he started the WTON radio station. Beyond his official jobs, Chas spent much of the early 1930s as an amateur playwright and author. Chas and Catherine Matthews were married in 1938.","While traveling Europe via train in 1934, Chas met David Kahn, a young Presbyterian judge of Indian descent. They would become lifelong friends. Mr. Kahn went on to become a governor of an Indian province under British rule and later head the Department of Sanitation for Calcutta. He and his wife visited their children, who had moved to the United States, and Mr. and Mrs. Blackley often until his health would not allow it. Evidence of their lifelong friendship can be found most clearly in this collection's correspondence and photographs.","Chas' WWII experience saw him drafted at age 35 and shipped to Camp Crowder, Missouri for training. He would eventually be transferred to Washington, D.C. where he worked as a private in the basement of the Pentagon. According this son, his superiors frequently called him upstairs to request autographed photos of American Broadcasting Company (ABC) celebrities. He was able to oblige them because of WSVA's status as an ABC affiliate.","Catherine Matthews Blackley was originally from Cambridge, Maryland and came to the Shenandoah Valley to attend the State Teacher's College at Harrisonburg (now James Madison University). She graduated in 1935 with a degree in home economics. For a short time she taught in Norfolk, Virginia before marrying Chas Blackley in 1938 and buying a home on Port Republic Road in Harrisonburg. After Chas was drafted and shipped to Camp Crowder, Mrs. Blackley traveled to Neosho, Missouri to be with her husband. While in Missouri, she volunteered with the Red Cross to help care for wounded soldiers. She continued this service after Mr. Blackley was transferred to Washington, D.C. After the war, they returned to the Valley and Catherine became a member of the Staunton School Board and was very active in volunteer work.","Charles \"Chuck\" Phillips Blackley Jr. was a professional engineer and graduate of Virginia Tech. He provided services in Virginia, West Virginia, and Maryland. Chuck married Patricia Fry in 1971. At the time he sold his office it was the largest engineering company in the region outside of Richmond, Roanoke, and Northern Virginia.","Patricia Fry Blackley graduated from James Madison University in 1987 and became a licensed real estate appraiser. After Chuck stepped away from his engineering office he teamed up with his wife and the couple became full-time photographers and writers. Their work can be found in hundreds of magazines, books, and calendars.","The collection as a whole required only limited preservation treatment. Some of the correspondence and papers did require Mylar sleeves. The 3D objects are housed together in one box with special housings created to protect them long-term. Most of the nineteenth-century letters required flattening to make them more accessible and to allow for proper digitization as per the donor agreement. Also, many of the diplomas and older photographs were removed from their frames for proper storage. Original order of materials was maintained wherever possible, taking into account provenance, storage needs, and accessibility for researchers.","Photographs and cabinet cards were removed from a leather photo album with \"Fannie S. Blackley Session 1881-'82\" embossed on the front cover. Some of the cabinet cards were identified with a Post-It note. Those identifications were written in pencil on the back of the cabinet cards. The photo album was not retained due to significant condition issues.","Charles C. Phillips Civil War Papers. MS 0327. Virginia Military Institute Archives.","Murr, Erika, L., ed.,  A Rebel Wife in Texas: The Diary and Letters of Elizabeth Scott Neblett, 1852-1864 . Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2001.","Lizzie Scott Neblett Papers, 1848-1935, Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, The University of Texas at Austin.","Yourself and family are invited to attend the feast of Mondamin corn festival . n.p.: Staunton, Va.: J. Harry Drechsler, pr., [1890], 1890. JAMES MADISON UNIV's Catalog, EBSCOhost (accessed May 2, 2017).","The Blackley Family Papers, 1830-2020, consists of hundreds of letters that span from 1830 to 2011; diaries; official United States, Confederate, and Texas documents; literary works; newspaper clippings; postcards; ephemera; and photographs. These papers document the related Scott, Bassett, Blackley, Hoge, Matthews, and Nix families of Texas and Staunton, Virginia.","Series 1: Correspondence, 1830-2011, is comprised of more than 300 individual letters. The majority of the earlier ones involve Sarah \"Sallie\" Scott Bassett and/or her husband R.H. Bassett. Together their combined correspondence comprises eight folders and spans the years 1850-1913.","These letters cover the years of the American Civil War and shed light on how the conflict affected their lives. In addition to letters from Captain R.H. Bassett, there are dozens of notes written home to Sallie from her brother Garrett Scott, brother-in-law Noah Bassett, and her cousin John Nix. All of these men spent time serving in the 4th Texas Regiment of the famed Texas Brigade. While their letters contain minimal military focused discussions, they do highlight camp life, personal struggles of being separated from each other, personal and public incidents, and family news. The military discussion is really limited to mention of the dead and wounded from battles and engagements. However, R.H. does write a letter to Sallie as he arrives on the battlefield at Gettysburg. He expresses excitement to build off the Confederates successes that afternoon. Battles and engagements discussed include Antietam (September 17, 1862), Chancellorsville (April 30 to May 6, 1863), Gettysburg (July 1-3, 1863), and Chickamauga (September 18–20, 1863).","Lizzie Scott Neblett was the older sister of Sallie Bassett and many letters between the sisters not previously examined, both before and after the American Civil War, can be found within this collection. Their letters shed light on relationship struggles, farm life, local news, and family connections.","While few in number, the surviving letters of Lizzie and Sallie's father, James Scott, provide significant insight into Texas prior to its in 1846. In the first, James writes his wife, Sarah, from the convention in Austin, Texas, where the debates about joining the United States were taking place. He offers few specifics as \"Nothing in which you would take any interest has occurred here and therefore I will not say anything about the proceedings…\" In second of these letters, James is writing to a Colonel B. Rush Wallace and gets far more political in discussion and tone. He talks at length about concern over the merits of becoming Whig or Democrat once they are thrust into the existing political climate of their new nation.","Of particular interest is an 1888 letter written by Ida Carter, presumably William M. and Belle Bassett Blackley's \"Black Mamy,\" is addressed to a Col. Bassett Blackley, in care of W. M. Blackley. Carter begins the letter \"Dear Little Bassett.\" This letter seems to suggest that the Blackleys did in fact have another child, Bassett Blackley, prior to Belle. If that is the case, Bassett Blackley may have died in childhood.","Of the twentieth-century correspondence, most of it was sent or received by Chas Blackley. While his letters span most of the century, the bulk are centered between the years 1930-1944. The letters that Chas Blackley wrote while visiting Europe in 1934 are of particular interest due to the changing political climate with the rise of the Nazis in Germany. Through his correspondence, diaries, and photographs there is an opportunity to see an American view of this transformative time. In one letter to his sister, Mary, dated August 21, Chas Blackley writes of the hanging of Nazis in Vienna, Austria for a failed coup that took place mere weeks before his arrival and that it \"has retarded history making considerably.\" He also spoke of the  Heimwehr , the home guard, patrolling the streets with their rifles and \"keeping a sharp to windward.\"","Series 2: Personal Papers, 1857-2015, is comprised of personal papers, diaries, and other documents that highlight the careers and interests of the family members. R.H. Bassett's papers include Confederate government and military documents pertaining to promotions, recruitment, and resignation.","Another unique piece of this collection from the early period is the Belle Bassett Diary, 1873-1879, which offers a glimpse of the post-war years for a child growing up in the South.","Chas Blackley, in addition to his letters from the trip to Europe, also kept a diary of his experiences. This diary covers the personal and public incidents of his travels.","More information about individual members of family is available here in the form of detailed histories of specific family lines (Blackley, Bassett, Hoge, etc.), through family trees, and biographical information.","Other items of note from Chas Blackley are the many manuscripts of novels and plays that he wrote in the early-to-mid 1930s.","Series 3: Ephemera, 1856-2004, houses many unique items such as hundreds of stamps (U.S., Confederate, and international), brochures, certificates, awards, diplomas, and pamphlets from events such as the 1932 Los Angeles Olympics and the 1933 World's Fair in Chicago, and dance cards. The aforementioned diplomas and certificates document the Blackley family's achievements and graduations from various schools and universities, including the University of Virginia, the State Teacher's College at Harrisonburg, and Virginia Tech. Many of the manuals and booklets used in Chas' various military training can be found in this series.","There are also newspaper clippings that share stories directly related to family members or address significant events of the time. These include awards won by the family, news about new jobs or graduations, historic events like D-Day, and John F. Kennedy's assassination.","One of the more locally relevant pieces is a pamphlet entitled \"Dedication of the Shenandoah National Park\" (1936). It lists the planned dedication speech from President Franklin D. Roosevelt given at Big Meadows as the key event.","This series also includes one oversize box of 3D ephemeral objects. Objects of interest include a Kodak No. 2 Folding Autographic Brownie camera (1917-1926) owned by Chas Blackley and inscribed with the names of Blackley and the SS  Gertrude Kellogg , Dr. Charles Coatesworth Phillips' small leather medicine case with glass bottles that he took on house calls, several pairs of glasses, a glass plate photograph of Susie E. Phillips, and assorted World's Fair ephemera.","Stored separately are multiple flags that are likely from Chas' 1930 voyage in the Pacific. There is a large and small Japanese flag, a small Chinese [pre-communist revolution] flag, and a small Philippine national flag. An additional flag dates to WWI and features the United States flag surrounded by smaller flags of all our allies from that conflict.","Series 4, Photographs, circa 1861-1989, includes photographic prints, negatives, and slides that document the Scott, Bassett, Blackley, Hoge, Matthews, and Nix families of Texas and Staunton, Virginia. Files are arranged chronologically and undated groupings of images are listed alphabetically at the end of the series. Files are labeled to reflect the subject of the photos; original arrangement and description of people and places as received from the donor was maintained whenever possible. Some photographs contain identifying text written on the back of the image, though many photos are unidentified. ","Photographs within this series document Chas Blackley's trips to Asia and the Pacific in 1930 as well as his journey through Europe in 1934. Other photographs document the Civilian Military Training Camp (CMTC) experience at Ft. Eustis, Virginia, from 1928.","Photographs created by or picturing Catherine Matthews Blackley contain images of campus and student life at the State Teacher's College at Harrisonburg (now JMU) dating from the early 1930s.","Series 5: Scrapbooks, 1862-1931, is comprised of one scrapbook created by R.H. Bassett, and three scrapbooks created by Chas Blackley. The scrapbook created by R.H. Bassett dates from 1862-1869 and contains mostly newspaper clippings related to Bassett's work in local and state politics in Grimes County, Texas, after a wound at the Battle of Chickamauga in 1864 ended his role in the American Civil War. \nThe three remaining scrapbooks were created by Chas Blackley, and document aspects of his life in the years between 1928-1931. The CTMC and VMI scrapbook documents Chas Blackley's military training at the Citizen's Military Training Camp (CTMC) from 1927-1929 as well as his time enrolled at the Virginia Military Institute (VMI). Two scrapbooks document Chas Blackley's 1930 travels with childhood friend  George Earman throughout the Pacific and multiple Asian nations aboard the steamer SS  Gertrude Kellogg .","The series largely documents Chas Blackley's involvement with radio stations WSVA and WTON and comprises photographs, correspondence, and printed ephemera. A file concerning Susan Blackley, Chas Blackley's daughter, is included and relate to her work as the horticulturalist for the city of Staunton. Photographs document Susan's time as a bartender at H.A. Winston's in Wilmington, Delaware.","Includes newspaper clippings covering Susan's work as a horticulturist for Staunton as well as photographs of Susan as a bartender at H.A. Winston's in Wilmington, Delaware.","Includes negatives.","Includes negatives.","Comprises papers and photographs related to the immediate and extended Blackley family. Materials also concern the Fry and Matthews families.","Materials related to Eugene Fry, father of Patricia Fry Blackley.","All published monographs have been cataloged individually and placed in Special Collections' rare book collection. Catherine Matthews Blackley's  Schooma'am  yearbooks were removed and housed with the yearbook collection. They are retained due to heavy annotations.","The copyright interests in this collection have been transferred to the James Madison University Special Collections Library. For more information, contact the Special Collections Library Reference Desk (library-special@jmu.edu).","The Blackley Family Papers, 1830-2020, consists of hundreds of letters that span from 1830 to 2011; diaries; official United States, Confederate, and Texas documents; literary works; newspaper clippings; postcards; ephemera; and photographs. These papers document the related Scott, Bassett, Blackley, Hoge, Matthews, and Nix families of Texas and Staunton, Virginia.","James Madison University Libraries Special Collections","State Teachers College at Harrisonburg (Harrisonburg, Va.) -- Students","United States. War Department. Citizens' Military Training Camps","Virginia Military Institute -- Students","Confederate States of America. Army. 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The eldest, Elizabeth \"Lizzie\" (1833-1917), was born in Mississippi in 1833, Sarah \"Sallie\" (1843-1914), born April 9, 1843 in Texas, and one of their brothers, Garrett (1838-1862), born in 1838, contribute the most to this collection of letters.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eLizzie married William H. Neblett (1826-1871), a farmer and attorney, in 1852. He eventually left her to go fight for the Confederacy. Her domestic struggle on the home front during the Civil War is the subject of Erika L. Murr's book, A Rebel Wife in Texas: The Diary and Letters of Elizabeth Scott Neblett, 1852-1864 (2001).\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eIn 1862, Sallie married Robert Houston \"R.H.\" Bassett (1836-1870). R.H. went on to enlist and serve in the famed Hood's Texas Brigade from 1861 to his wounding in 1864. He worked briefly as the adjutant general to Major General John Bell. While leading the regiment, he was wounded at the Battle of Chickamauga by an artillery shell fragment that lodged in his shoulder. This would effectively end his role in the war. Following the conclusion of the conflict and his recovery from the wound, R.H. tried his hand at politics in a bid to represent Grimes County, Texas in Congress. Their first child, Robert, died tragically in 1864 at only eight months old. R.H. died in 1870 because of health complications that appear related to edema.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eR.H.'s brother, Noah (1839-1886), also served in the Texas Brigade. The correspondence between R.H., Sallie, and Noah provides a lucid account of the Army of Northern Virginia's major campaigns and operations, including developments related to the Battles of Antietam, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, and Chickamauga.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eGarrett Scott, Sallie Scott's brother, died in action at the Battle of Antietam September 17, 1862 while serving in the Texas Brigade. His letters from the early years of the war offer yet another perspective of campaign and camp life.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eR.H. and Sallie's daughter, Barbara \"Belle\" Bassett (1865-1958), married William Mason Blackley (1863-1898) in 1884 and lived in Staunton, Virginia before moving to Washington, D.C. Research suggests they only had one child, Belle Blackley (1890-1967), whom never married and lived out her life in Washington, D.C. However, an 1888 letter contained in this collection written by Ida Carter, the Blackley's \"Black Mamy,\" is addressed to a Col. Bassett Blackley, in care of W. M. Blackley. Carter begins the letter \"Dear Little Bassett.\" This letter seems to suggest that the Blackleys did in fact have another child, Bassett Blackley, prior to Belle. If that is the case, Bassett Blackley may have died in childhood.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThe bulk of the twentieth-century material was created by or concerns William Mason Blackley's nephew, Charles \"Chas\" Phillips Blackley Sr. (1909-1999), his wife Catherine Matthews Blackley (1914-2010), and their son and daughter-in-law Charles \"Chuck\" Phillips Blackley (b. 1951) and Patricia Fry Blackley (b. 1952).\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eCharles \"Chas\" Phillips Blackley Sr. was born in Staunton, Virginia in 1909. His parents died from the Spanish Flu when he was 10. Their deaths required Chas and his sister Mary Gilkeson Blackley to move in with their aunt, Fannie Blackley Cushing in Staunton. These materials cover his travels throughout the Pacific and Asia aboard a \"tramp steamer\" with boyhood friend, George Earman in 1930, his 1927-1929 military training in the little discussed Citizens Military Training Camps (CMTC), time at the Virginia Military Institute (VMI), his 1934 travels in Europe, World War II military service, and ownership and operation of WSVA, the first radio station in Harrisonburg, Virginia. Chas sold his share in WSVA and moved to Staunton, Virginia where he started the WTON radio station. Beyond his official jobs, Chas spent much of the early 1930s as an amateur playwright and author. Chas and Catherine Matthews were married in 1938.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eWhile traveling Europe via train in 1934, Chas met David Kahn, a young Presbyterian judge of Indian descent. They would become lifelong friends. Mr. Kahn went on to become a governor of an Indian province under British rule and later head the Department of Sanitation for Calcutta. He and his wife visited their children, who had moved to the United States, and Mr. and Mrs. Blackley often until his health would not allow it. Evidence of their lifelong friendship can be found most clearly in this collection's correspondence and photographs.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eChas' WWII experience saw him drafted at age 35 and shipped to Camp Crowder, Missouri for training. He would eventually be transferred to Washington, D.C. where he worked as a private in the basement of the Pentagon. According this son, his superiors frequently called him upstairs to request autographed photos of American Broadcasting Company (ABC) celebrities. He was able to oblige them because of WSVA's status as an ABC affiliate.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eCatherine Matthews Blackley was originally from Cambridge, Maryland and came to the Shenandoah Valley to attend the State Teacher's College at Harrisonburg (now James Madison University). She graduated in 1935 with a degree in home economics. For a short time she taught in Norfolk, Virginia before marrying Chas Blackley in 1938 and buying a home on Port Republic Road in Harrisonburg. After Chas was drafted and shipped to Camp Crowder, Mrs. Blackley traveled to Neosho, Missouri to be with her husband. While in Missouri, she volunteered with the Red Cross to help care for wounded soldiers. She continued this service after Mr. Blackley was transferred to Washington, D.C. After the war, they returned to the Valley and Catherine became a member of the Staunton School Board and was very active in volunteer work.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eCharles \"Chuck\" Phillips Blackley Jr. was a professional engineer and graduate of Virginia Tech. He provided services in Virginia, West Virginia, and Maryland. Chuck married Patricia Fry in 1971. At the time he sold his office it was the largest engineering company in the region outside of Richmond, Roanoke, and Northern Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003ePatricia Fry Blackley graduated from James Madison University in 1987 and became a licensed real estate appraiser. After Chuck stepped away from his engineering office he teamed up with his wife and the couple became full-time photographers and writers. Their work can be found in hundreds of magazines, books, and calendars.\u003c/p\u003e"],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biographical / Historical"],"bioghist_tesim":["The Blackley Family Papers document the related Scott, Bassett, Blackley, Hoge, and Nix families of mostly Texas and Staunton, Virginia between 1830 and 2016. James Scott (1799-1856) was a Tennessee native and former Mississippi Supreme Court chief justice who married Sarah Lane (1803-1880) and settled in Anderson, Texas. James was a prominent Texas judge who was friends with Davie Crockett. While in Mississippi and Texas, James and Sarah had six children. The eldest, Elizabeth \"Lizzie\" (1833-1917), was born in Mississippi in 1833, Sarah \"Sallie\" (1843-1914), born April 9, 1843 in Texas, and one of their brothers, Garrett (1838-1862), born in 1838, contribute the most to this collection of letters.","Lizzie married William H. Neblett (1826-1871), a farmer and attorney, in 1852. He eventually left her to go fight for the Confederacy. Her domestic struggle on the home front during the Civil War is the subject of Erika L. Murr's book, A Rebel Wife in Texas: The Diary and Letters of Elizabeth Scott Neblett, 1852-1864 (2001).","In 1862, Sallie married Robert Houston \"R.H.\" Bassett (1836-1870). R.H. went on to enlist and serve in the famed Hood's Texas Brigade from 1861 to his wounding in 1864. He worked briefly as the adjutant general to Major General John Bell. While leading the regiment, he was wounded at the Battle of Chickamauga by an artillery shell fragment that lodged in his shoulder. This would effectively end his role in the war. Following the conclusion of the conflict and his recovery from the wound, R.H. tried his hand at politics in a bid to represent Grimes County, Texas in Congress. Their first child, Robert, died tragically in 1864 at only eight months old. R.H. died in 1870 because of health complications that appear related to edema.","R.H.'s brother, Noah (1839-1886), also served in the Texas Brigade. The correspondence between R.H., Sallie, and Noah provides a lucid account of the Army of Northern Virginia's major campaigns and operations, including developments related to the Battles of Antietam, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, and Chickamauga.","Garrett Scott, Sallie Scott's brother, died in action at the Battle of Antietam September 17, 1862 while serving in the Texas Brigade. His letters from the early years of the war offer yet another perspective of campaign and camp life.","R.H. and Sallie's daughter, Barbara \"Belle\" Bassett (1865-1958), married William Mason Blackley (1863-1898) in 1884 and lived in Staunton, Virginia before moving to Washington, D.C. Research suggests they only had one child, Belle Blackley (1890-1967), whom never married and lived out her life in Washington, D.C. However, an 1888 letter contained in this collection written by Ida Carter, the Blackley's \"Black Mamy,\" is addressed to a Col. Bassett Blackley, in care of W. M. Blackley. Carter begins the letter \"Dear Little Bassett.\" This letter seems to suggest that the Blackleys did in fact have another child, Bassett Blackley, prior to Belle. If that is the case, Bassett Blackley may have died in childhood.","The bulk of the twentieth-century material was created by or concerns William Mason Blackley's nephew, Charles \"Chas\" Phillips Blackley Sr. (1909-1999), his wife Catherine Matthews Blackley (1914-2010), and their son and daughter-in-law Charles \"Chuck\" Phillips Blackley (b. 1951) and Patricia Fry Blackley (b. 1952).","Charles \"Chas\" Phillips Blackley Sr. was born in Staunton, Virginia in 1909. His parents died from the Spanish Flu when he was 10. Their deaths required Chas and his sister Mary Gilkeson Blackley to move in with their aunt, Fannie Blackley Cushing in Staunton. These materials cover his travels throughout the Pacific and Asia aboard a \"tramp steamer\" with boyhood friend, George Earman in 1930, his 1927-1929 military training in the little discussed Citizens Military Training Camps (CMTC), time at the Virginia Military Institute (VMI), his 1934 travels in Europe, World War II military service, and ownership and operation of WSVA, the first radio station in Harrisonburg, Virginia. Chas sold his share in WSVA and moved to Staunton, Virginia where he started the WTON radio station. Beyond his official jobs, Chas spent much of the early 1930s as an amateur playwright and author. Chas and Catherine Matthews were married in 1938.","While traveling Europe via train in 1934, Chas met David Kahn, a young Presbyterian judge of Indian descent. They would become lifelong friends. Mr. Kahn went on to become a governor of an Indian province under British rule and later head the Department of Sanitation for Calcutta. He and his wife visited their children, who had moved to the United States, and Mr. and Mrs. Blackley often until his health would not allow it. Evidence of their lifelong friendship can be found most clearly in this collection's correspondence and photographs.","Chas' WWII experience saw him drafted at age 35 and shipped to Camp Crowder, Missouri for training. He would eventually be transferred to Washington, D.C. where he worked as a private in the basement of the Pentagon. According this son, his superiors frequently called him upstairs to request autographed photos of American Broadcasting Company (ABC) celebrities. He was able to oblige them because of WSVA's status as an ABC affiliate.","Catherine Matthews Blackley was originally from Cambridge, Maryland and came to the Shenandoah Valley to attend the State Teacher's College at Harrisonburg (now James Madison University). She graduated in 1935 with a degree in home economics. For a short time she taught in Norfolk, Virginia before marrying Chas Blackley in 1938 and buying a home on Port Republic Road in Harrisonburg. After Chas was drafted and shipped to Camp Crowder, Mrs. Blackley traveled to Neosho, Missouri to be with her husband. While in Missouri, she volunteered with the Red Cross to help care for wounded soldiers. She continued this service after Mr. Blackley was transferred to Washington, D.C. After the war, they returned to the Valley and Catherine became a member of the Staunton School Board and was very active in volunteer work.","Charles \"Chuck\" Phillips Blackley Jr. was a professional engineer and graduate of Virginia Tech. He provided services in Virginia, West Virginia, and Maryland. Chuck married Patricia Fry in 1971. At the time he sold his office it was the largest engineering company in the region outside of Richmond, Roanoke, and Northern Virginia.","Patricia Fry Blackley graduated from James Madison University in 1987 and became a licensed real estate appraiser. After Chuck stepped away from his engineering office he teamed up with his wife and the couple became full-time photographers and writers. Their work can be found in hundreds of magazines, books, and calendars."],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003e[identification of item], [box #, folder #], Blackley Family Papers, 1830-2020, SC 0232, Special Collections, Carrier Library, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA.\u003c/p\u003e"],"prefercite_tesim":["[identification of item], [box #, folder #], Blackley Family Papers, 1830-2020, SC 0232, Special Collections, Carrier Library, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA."],"processinfo_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe collection as a whole required only limited preservation treatment. Some of the correspondence and papers did require Mylar sleeves. The 3D objects are housed together in one box with special housings created to protect them long-term. Most of the nineteenth-century letters required flattening to make them more accessible and to allow for proper digitization as per the donor agreement. Also, many of the diplomas and older photographs were removed from their frames for proper storage. Original order of materials was maintained wherever possible, taking into account provenance, storage needs, and accessibility for researchers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePhotographs and cabinet cards were removed from a leather photo album with \"Fannie S. Blackley Session 1881-'82\" embossed on the front cover. Some of the cabinet cards were identified with a Post-It note. Those identifications were written in pencil on the back of the cabinet cards. The photo album was not retained due to significant condition issues.\u003c/p\u003e"],"processinfo_heading_ssm":["Processing Information","Processing Information"],"processinfo_tesim":["The collection as a whole required only limited preservation treatment. Some of the correspondence and papers did require Mylar sleeves. The 3D objects are housed together in one box with special housings created to protect them long-term. Most of the nineteenth-century letters required flattening to make them more accessible and to allow for proper digitization as per the donor agreement. Also, many of the diplomas and older photographs were removed from their frames for proper storage. Original order of materials was maintained wherever possible, taking into account provenance, storage needs, and accessibility for researchers.","Photographs and cabinet cards were removed from a leather photo album with \"Fannie S. Blackley Session 1881-'82\" embossed on the front cover. Some of the cabinet cards were identified with a Post-It note. Those identifications were written in pencil on the back of the cabinet cards. The photo album was not retained due to significant condition issues."],"relatedmaterial_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003e\u003cextref type=\"simple\" actuate=\"onRequest\" show=\"new\" href=\"http://archivesspace.vmi.edu/repositories/3/resources/780\"\u003eCharles C. Phillips Civil War Papers. MS 0327. Virginia Military Institute Archives.\u003c/extref\u003e  \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eMurr, Erika, L., ed., \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eA Rebel Wife in Texas: The Diary and Letters of Elizabeth Scott Neblett, 1852-1864\u003c/emph\u003e. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2001.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\u003cextref type=\"simple\" actuate=\"onRequest\" show=\"new\" href=\"http://www.lib.utexas.edu/taro/utcah/00426/cah-00426.html\"\u003eLizzie Scott Neblett Papers, 1848-1935, Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, The University of Texas at Austin.\u003c/extref\u003e \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eYourself and family are invited to attend the feast of Mondamin corn festival\u003c/emph\u003e. n.p.: Staunton, Va.: J. Harry Drechsler, pr., [1890], 1890. JAMES MADISON UNIV's Catalog, EBSCOhost (accessed May 2, 2017).\u003c/p\u003e"],"relatedmaterial_heading_ssm":["Related Material"],"relatedmaterial_tesim":["Charles C. Phillips Civil War Papers. MS 0327. Virginia Military Institute Archives.","Murr, Erika, L., ed.,  A Rebel Wife in Texas: The Diary and Letters of Elizabeth Scott Neblett, 1852-1864 . Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2001.","Lizzie Scott Neblett Papers, 1848-1935, Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, The University of Texas at Austin.","Yourself and family are invited to attend the feast of Mondamin corn festival . n.p.: Staunton, Va.: J. Harry Drechsler, pr., [1890], 1890. JAMES MADISON UNIV's Catalog, EBSCOhost (accessed May 2, 2017)."],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe Blackley Family Papers, 1830-2020, consists of hundreds of letters that span from 1830 to 2011; diaries; official United States, Confederate, and Texas documents; literary works; newspaper clippings; postcards; ephemera; and photographs. These papers document the related Scott, Bassett, Blackley, Hoge, Matthews, and Nix families of Texas and Staunton, Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 1: Correspondence, 1830-2011, is comprised of more than 300 individual letters. The majority of the earlier ones involve Sarah \"Sallie\" Scott Bassett and/or her husband R.H. Bassett. Together their combined correspondence comprises eight folders and spans the years 1850-1913.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThese letters cover the years of the American Civil War and shed light on how the conflict affected their lives. In addition to letters from Captain R.H. Bassett, there are dozens of notes written home to Sallie from her brother Garrett Scott, brother-in-law Noah Bassett, and her cousin John Nix. All of these men spent time serving in the 4th Texas Regiment of the famed Texas Brigade. While their letters contain minimal military focused discussions, they do highlight camp life, personal struggles of being separated from each other, personal and public incidents, and family news. The military discussion is really limited to mention of the dead and wounded from battles and engagements. However, R.H. does write a letter to Sallie as he arrives on the battlefield at Gettysburg. He expresses excitement to build off the Confederates successes that afternoon. Battles and engagements discussed include Antietam (September 17, 1862), Chancellorsville (April 30 to May 6, 1863), Gettysburg (July 1-3, 1863), and Chickamauga (September 18–20, 1863).\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eLizzie Scott Neblett was the older sister of Sallie Bassett and many letters between the sisters not previously examined, both before and after the American Civil War, can be found within this collection. Their letters shed light on relationship struggles, farm life, local news, and family connections.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eWhile few in number, the surviving letters of Lizzie and Sallie's father, James Scott, provide significant insight into Texas prior to its in 1846. In the first, James writes his wife, Sarah, from the convention in Austin, Texas, where the debates about joining the United States were taking place. He offers few specifics as \"Nothing in which you would take any interest has occurred here and therefore I will not say anything about the proceedings…\" In second of these letters, James is writing to a Colonel B. Rush Wallace and gets far more political in discussion and tone. He talks at length about concern over the merits of becoming Whig or Democrat once they are thrust into the existing political climate of their new nation.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eOf particular interest is an 1888 letter written by Ida Carter, presumably William M. and Belle Bassett Blackley's \"Black Mamy,\" is addressed to a Col. Bassett Blackley, in care of W. M. Blackley. Carter begins the letter \"Dear Little Bassett.\" This letter seems to suggest that the Blackleys did in fact have another child, Bassett Blackley, prior to Belle. If that is the case, Bassett Blackley may have died in childhood.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eOf the twentieth-century correspondence, most of it was sent or received by Chas Blackley. While his letters span most of the century, the bulk are centered between the years 1930-1944. The letters that Chas Blackley wrote while visiting Europe in 1934 are of particular interest due to the changing political climate with the rise of the Nazis in Germany. Through his correspondence, diaries, and photographs there is an opportunity to see an American view of this transformative time. In one letter to his sister, Mary, dated August 21, Chas Blackley writes of the hanging of Nazis in Vienna, Austria for a failed coup that took place mere weeks before his arrival and that it \"has retarded history making considerably.\" He also spoke of the \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eHeimwehr\u003c/emph\u003e, the home guard, patrolling the streets with their rifles and \"keeping a sharp to windward.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 2: Personal Papers, 1857-2015, is comprised of personal papers, diaries, and other documents that highlight the careers and interests of the family members. R.H. Bassett's papers include Confederate government and military documents pertaining to promotions, recruitment, and resignation.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eAnother unique piece of this collection from the early period is the Belle Bassett Diary, 1873-1879, which offers a glimpse of the post-war years for a child growing up in the South.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eChas Blackley, in addition to his letters from the trip to Europe, also kept a diary of his experiences. This diary covers the personal and public incidents of his travels.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eMore information about individual members of family is available here in the form of detailed histories of specific family lines (Blackley, Bassett, Hoge, etc.), through family trees, and biographical information.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eOther items of note from Chas Blackley are the many manuscripts of novels and plays that he wrote in the early-to-mid 1930s.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 3: Ephemera, 1856-2004, houses many unique items such as hundreds of stamps (U.S., Confederate, and international), brochures, certificates, awards, diplomas, and pamphlets from events such as the 1932 Los Angeles Olympics and the 1933 World's Fair in Chicago, and dance cards. The aforementioned diplomas and certificates document the Blackley family's achievements and graduations from various schools and universities, including the University of Virginia, the State Teacher's College at Harrisonburg, and Virginia Tech. Many of the manuals and booklets used in Chas' various military training can be found in this series.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThere are also newspaper clippings that share stories directly related to family members or address significant events of the time. These include awards won by the family, news about new jobs or graduations, historic events like D-Day, and John F. Kennedy's assassination.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eOne of the more locally relevant pieces is a pamphlet entitled \"Dedication of the Shenandoah National Park\" (1936). It lists the planned dedication speech from President Franklin D. Roosevelt given at Big Meadows as the key event.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThis series also includes one oversize box of 3D ephemeral objects. Objects of interest include a Kodak No. 2 Folding Autographic Brownie camera (1917-1926) owned by Chas Blackley and inscribed with the names of Blackley and the SS \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eGertrude Kellogg\u003c/emph\u003e, Dr. Charles Coatesworth Phillips' small leather medicine case with glass bottles that he took on house calls, several pairs of glasses, a glass plate photograph of Susie E. Phillips, and assorted World's Fair ephemera.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eStored separately are multiple flags that are likely from Chas' 1930 voyage in the Pacific. There is a large and small Japanese flag, a small Chinese [pre-communist revolution] flag, and a small Philippine national flag. An additional flag dates to WWI and features the United States flag surrounded by smaller flags of all our allies from that conflict.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 4, Photographs, circa 1861-1989, includes photographic prints, negatives, and slides that document the Scott, Bassett, Blackley, Hoge, Matthews, and Nix families of Texas and Staunton, Virginia. Files are arranged chronologically and undated groupings of images are listed alphabetically at the end of the series. Files are labeled to reflect the subject of the photos; original arrangement and description of people and places as received from the donor was maintained whenever possible. Some photographs contain identifying text written on the back of the image, though many photos are unidentified. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003ePhotographs within this series document Chas Blackley's trips to Asia and the Pacific in 1930 as well as his journey through Europe in 1934. Other photographs document the Civilian Military Training Camp (CMTC) experience at Ft. Eustis, Virginia, from 1928.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003ePhotographs created by or picturing Catherine Matthews Blackley contain images of campus and student life at the State Teacher's College at Harrisonburg (now JMU) dating from the early 1930s.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 5: Scrapbooks, 1862-1931, is comprised of one scrapbook created by R.H. Bassett, and three scrapbooks created by Chas Blackley. The scrapbook created by R.H. Bassett dates from 1862-1869 and contains mostly newspaper clippings related to Bassett's work in local and state politics in Grimes County, Texas, after a wound at the Battle of Chickamauga in 1864 ended his role in the American Civil War. \nThe three remaining scrapbooks were created by Chas Blackley, and document aspects of his life in the years between 1928-1931. The CTMC and VMI scrapbook documents Chas Blackley's military training at the Citizen's Military Training Camp (CTMC) from 1927-1929 as well as his time enrolled at the Virginia Military Institute (VMI). Two scrapbooks document Chas Blackley's 1930 travels with childhood friend  George Earman throughout the Pacific and multiple Asian nations aboard the steamer SS \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eGertrude Kellogg\u003c/emph\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe series largely documents Chas Blackley's involvement with radio stations WSVA and WTON and comprises photographs, correspondence, and printed ephemera. A file concerning Susan Blackley, Chas Blackley's daughter, is included and relate to her work as the horticulturalist for the city of Staunton. Photographs document Susan's time as a bartender at H.A. Winston's in Wilmington, Delaware.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes newspaper clippings covering Susan's work as a horticulturist for Staunton as well as photographs of Susan as a bartender at H.A. Winston's in Wilmington, Delaware.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes negatives.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes negatives.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eComprises papers and photographs related to the immediate and extended Blackley family. Materials also concern the Fry and Matthews families.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMaterials related to Eugene Fry, father of Patricia Fry Blackley.\u003c/p\u003e"],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Content","Scope and Contents","Scope and Content","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents"],"scopecontent_tesim":["The Blackley Family Papers, 1830-2020, consists of hundreds of letters that span from 1830 to 2011; diaries; official United States, Confederate, and Texas documents; literary works; newspaper clippings; postcards; ephemera; and photographs. These papers document the related Scott, Bassett, Blackley, Hoge, Matthews, and Nix families of Texas and Staunton, Virginia.","Series 1: Correspondence, 1830-2011, is comprised of more than 300 individual letters. The majority of the earlier ones involve Sarah \"Sallie\" Scott Bassett and/or her husband R.H. Bassett. Together their combined correspondence comprises eight folders and spans the years 1850-1913.","These letters cover the years of the American Civil War and shed light on how the conflict affected their lives. In addition to letters from Captain R.H. Bassett, there are dozens of notes written home to Sallie from her brother Garrett Scott, brother-in-law Noah Bassett, and her cousin John Nix. All of these men spent time serving in the 4th Texas Regiment of the famed Texas Brigade. While their letters contain minimal military focused discussions, they do highlight camp life, personal struggles of being separated from each other, personal and public incidents, and family news. The military discussion is really limited to mention of the dead and wounded from battles and engagements. However, R.H. does write a letter to Sallie as he arrives on the battlefield at Gettysburg. He expresses excitement to build off the Confederates successes that afternoon. Battles and engagements discussed include Antietam (September 17, 1862), Chancellorsville (April 30 to May 6, 1863), Gettysburg (July 1-3, 1863), and Chickamauga (September 18–20, 1863).","Lizzie Scott Neblett was the older sister of Sallie Bassett and many letters between the sisters not previously examined, both before and after the American Civil War, can be found within this collection. Their letters shed light on relationship struggles, farm life, local news, and family connections.","While few in number, the surviving letters of Lizzie and Sallie's father, James Scott, provide significant insight into Texas prior to its in 1846. In the first, James writes his wife, Sarah, from the convention in Austin, Texas, where the debates about joining the United States were taking place. He offers few specifics as \"Nothing in which you would take any interest has occurred here and therefore I will not say anything about the proceedings…\" In second of these letters, James is writing to a Colonel B. Rush Wallace and gets far more political in discussion and tone. He talks at length about concern over the merits of becoming Whig or Democrat once they are thrust into the existing political climate of their new nation.","Of particular interest is an 1888 letter written by Ida Carter, presumably William M. and Belle Bassett Blackley's \"Black Mamy,\" is addressed to a Col. Bassett Blackley, in care of W. M. Blackley. Carter begins the letter \"Dear Little Bassett.\" This letter seems to suggest that the Blackleys did in fact have another child, Bassett Blackley, prior to Belle. If that is the case, Bassett Blackley may have died in childhood.","Of the twentieth-century correspondence, most of it was sent or received by Chas Blackley. While his letters span most of the century, the bulk are centered between the years 1930-1944. The letters that Chas Blackley wrote while visiting Europe in 1934 are of particular interest due to the changing political climate with the rise of the Nazis in Germany. Through his correspondence, diaries, and photographs there is an opportunity to see an American view of this transformative time. In one letter to his sister, Mary, dated August 21, Chas Blackley writes of the hanging of Nazis in Vienna, Austria for a failed coup that took place mere weeks before his arrival and that it \"has retarded history making considerably.\" He also spoke of the  Heimwehr , the home guard, patrolling the streets with their rifles and \"keeping a sharp to windward.\"","Series 2: Personal Papers, 1857-2015, is comprised of personal papers, diaries, and other documents that highlight the careers and interests of the family members. R.H. Bassett's papers include Confederate government and military documents pertaining to promotions, recruitment, and resignation.","Another unique piece of this collection from the early period is the Belle Bassett Diary, 1873-1879, which offers a glimpse of the post-war years for a child growing up in the South.","Chas Blackley, in addition to his letters from the trip to Europe, also kept a diary of his experiences. This diary covers the personal and public incidents of his travels.","More information about individual members of family is available here in the form of detailed histories of specific family lines (Blackley, Bassett, Hoge, etc.), through family trees, and biographical information.","Other items of note from Chas Blackley are the many manuscripts of novels and plays that he wrote in the early-to-mid 1930s.","Series 3: Ephemera, 1856-2004, houses many unique items such as hundreds of stamps (U.S., Confederate, and international), brochures, certificates, awards, diplomas, and pamphlets from events such as the 1932 Los Angeles Olympics and the 1933 World's Fair in Chicago, and dance cards. The aforementioned diplomas and certificates document the Blackley family's achievements and graduations from various schools and universities, including the University of Virginia, the State Teacher's College at Harrisonburg, and Virginia Tech. Many of the manuals and booklets used in Chas' various military training can be found in this series.","There are also newspaper clippings that share stories directly related to family members or address significant events of the time. These include awards won by the family, news about new jobs or graduations, historic events like D-Day, and John F. Kennedy's assassination.","One of the more locally relevant pieces is a pamphlet entitled \"Dedication of the Shenandoah National Park\" (1936). It lists the planned dedication speech from President Franklin D. Roosevelt given at Big Meadows as the key event.","This series also includes one oversize box of 3D ephemeral objects. Objects of interest include a Kodak No. 2 Folding Autographic Brownie camera (1917-1926) owned by Chas Blackley and inscribed with the names of Blackley and the SS  Gertrude Kellogg , Dr. Charles Coatesworth Phillips' small leather medicine case with glass bottles that he took on house calls, several pairs of glasses, a glass plate photograph of Susie E. Phillips, and assorted World's Fair ephemera.","Stored separately are multiple flags that are likely from Chas' 1930 voyage in the Pacific. There is a large and small Japanese flag, a small Chinese [pre-communist revolution] flag, and a small Philippine national flag. An additional flag dates to WWI and features the United States flag surrounded by smaller flags of all our allies from that conflict.","Series 4, Photographs, circa 1861-1989, includes photographic prints, negatives, and slides that document the Scott, Bassett, Blackley, Hoge, Matthews, and Nix families of Texas and Staunton, Virginia. Files are arranged chronologically and undated groupings of images are listed alphabetically at the end of the series. Files are labeled to reflect the subject of the photos; original arrangement and description of people and places as received from the donor was maintained whenever possible. Some photographs contain identifying text written on the back of the image, though many photos are unidentified. ","Photographs within this series document Chas Blackley's trips to Asia and the Pacific in 1930 as well as his journey through Europe in 1934. Other photographs document the Civilian Military Training Camp (CMTC) experience at Ft. Eustis, Virginia, from 1928.","Photographs created by or picturing Catherine Matthews Blackley contain images of campus and student life at the State Teacher's College at Harrisonburg (now JMU) dating from the early 1930s.","Series 5: Scrapbooks, 1862-1931, is comprised of one scrapbook created by R.H. Bassett, and three scrapbooks created by Chas Blackley. The scrapbook created by R.H. Bassett dates from 1862-1869 and contains mostly newspaper clippings related to Bassett's work in local and state politics in Grimes County, Texas, after a wound at the Battle of Chickamauga in 1864 ended his role in the American Civil War. \nThe three remaining scrapbooks were created by Chas Blackley, and document aspects of his life in the years between 1928-1931. The CTMC and VMI scrapbook documents Chas Blackley's military training at the Citizen's Military Training Camp (CTMC) from 1927-1929 as well as his time enrolled at the Virginia Military Institute (VMI). Two scrapbooks document Chas Blackley's 1930 travels with childhood friend  George Earman throughout the Pacific and multiple Asian nations aboard the steamer SS  Gertrude Kellogg .","The series largely documents Chas Blackley's involvement with radio stations WSVA and WTON and comprises photographs, correspondence, and printed ephemera. A file concerning Susan Blackley, Chas Blackley's daughter, is included and relate to her work as the horticulturalist for the city of Staunton. Photographs document Susan's time as a bartender at H.A. Winston's in Wilmington, Delaware.","Includes newspaper clippings covering Susan's work as a horticulturist for Staunton as well as photographs of Susan as a bartender at H.A. Winston's in Wilmington, Delaware.","Includes negatives.","Includes negatives.","Comprises papers and photographs related to the immediate and extended Blackley family. Materials also concern the Fry and Matthews families.","Materials related to Eugene Fry, father of Patricia Fry Blackley."],"separatedmaterial_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eAll published monographs have been cataloged individually and placed in Special Collections' rare book collection. Catherine Matthews Blackley's \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eSchooma'am\u003c/emph\u003e yearbooks were removed and housed with the yearbook collection. They are retained due to heavy annotations.\u003c/p\u003e"],"separatedmaterial_heading_ssm":["Separated Material"],"separatedmaterial_tesim":["All published monographs have been cataloged individually and placed in Special Collections' rare book collection. Catherine Matthews Blackley's  Schooma'am  yearbooks were removed and housed with the yearbook collection. They are retained due to heavy annotations."],"userestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe copyright interests in this collection have been transferred to the James Madison University Special Collections Library. For more information, contact the Special Collections Library Reference Desk (library-special@jmu.edu).\u003c/p\u003e"],"userestrict_heading_ssm":["Conditions Governing Use"],"userestrict_tesim":["The copyright interests in this collection have been transferred to the James Madison University Special Collections Library. For more information, contact the Special Collections Library Reference Desk (library-special@jmu.edu)."],"abstract_html_tesm":["\u003cabstract id=\"aspace_e73d9f92cf4c9d321a4666b26feddd80\"\u003eThe Blackley Family Papers, 1830-2020, consists of hundreds of letters that span from 1830 to 2011; diaries; official United States, Confederate, and Texas documents; literary works; newspaper clippings; postcards; ephemera; and photographs. These papers document the related Scott, Bassett, Blackley, Hoge, Matthews, and Nix families of Texas and Staunton, Virginia.\u003c/abstract\u003e"],"abstract_tesim":["The Blackley Family Papers, 1830-2020, consists of hundreds of letters that span from 1830 to 2011; diaries; official United States, Confederate, and Texas documents; literary works; newspaper clippings; postcards; ephemera; and photographs. 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Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, such as the Virginia Public Records Act (Code of Virginia. § 42.1-76-91); and the Virginia Freedom of Information Act (Code of Virginia § 2.2-3705.5). Confidential material may include, but is not limited to, educational, medical, and personnel records. If sensitive material is found in this collection, please contact a staff member immediately. The disclosure of personally identifiable information pertaining to a living individual may have legal consequences for which the College of William and Mary assumes no responsibility.","Organized into three series: Series 1: John L. Bosworth, Series 2: John Woodbridge Bosworth, Series 3: John Bosworth Fling."," Note: Some items in Series 3 relate to all of the men (For example: photographs and news clippings.).","John Bosworth Fling, commonly known as Jack Fling by friends and family, was an active scholar, traveler, and the author of most of the works in this collection. Jack wrote dedicatedly to his family while he was away in school and during his travels through Europe in the 1950s. He got his first degree at Harvard in the early 1940s, after that he went to Columbia University for a Master's degree. When he was a child, John Bosworth-Fling suffered from polio, and was plagued by effects of the disease, paralysis of the legs, his entire life. Because of his paralysis he was not drafted during World War II and instead studied during the war years. For a few years he worked for the March of the Dimes and National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis as a speaker and advocate for childhood vaccination against polio. The vaccination became available in 1951. In 1953 Jack was studying at Northwestern University where his focus had turned to journalism. After his studies at Harvard, Columbia, and Northwestern, Jack traveled throughout Europe, writing frequently to friends and family about his trip. He then sought positions as a professor of high school teacher. He was active in the decisions of his parents and very dedicated to his family."," Further information about this individual or organization may be available in the Special Collections Research Center Wiki:  . Further information about this individual or organization may be available in the Special Collections Research Center Wiki:  .","Accessioned and minimally processed by Benjamin Bromley, Public Services Archives Specialist, in October 2011. Processing and finding aid completed by Rachel Thomas, SCRC staff, in January 2012.","Letters, postcards, printed material, photographs, and other related material, circa 1890-1960, of John L. Bosworth, John Woodbridge Bosworth and John (Jack) Bosworth Fling. Includes photographs of the three men, copies of printed works written by John W. Bosworth, and printed material relating to John W. Bosworth's time as a police officer and superintendent of public safety for West Virginia. The family is from Elkins, Randolph County, West Virginia.  The letters encompass World War II in the United States, travel through Europe in the 1950s, polio, management of their rental properties, many references to Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Warm Springs, March of the Dimes, the Democratic party, life at Harvard and Columbia University, and popular films. The majority of the collection is comprised of letters and postcards written by Fling to his parents and materials related to his world travel.","Of note are letters written by Soviet and Nazi spy Martha Dodd, Black Pete cigar rings from the Netherlands (good for winter display), and monies from various European nations.","Elkins Daily Mail, West Virginia newspaper 1940-1942 (Rare Book Newspaper AN 49 .E44)","John L. Bosworth born in 1856, grandfather of John Bosworth Fling, father of Mary Fling and John Woodbridge Bosworth, was a Doctor and longtime resident of Randolph County, West Virginia. He was married to Rachel H. Crouch on December 29, 1892. The Flings lived with Bosworth for many years. He died on May 14, 1948 from complications of Pneumonia.This collection hold letters related to the upkeep of his house, receipts for building materials, and the death of his wife, as well as his school records.","The materials of John Woodbridge Bosworth, son of John L. 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Bosworth born in 1856, grandfather of John Bosworth Fling, father of Mary Fling and John Woodbridge Bosworth, was a Doctor and longtime resident of Randolph County, West Virginia. He was married to Rachel H. Crouch on December 29, 1892. The Flings lived with Bosworth for many years. He died on May 14, 1948 from complications of Pneumonia.This collection hold letters related to the upkeep of his house, receipts for building materials, and the death of his wife, as well as his school records.","The materials of John Woodbridge Bosworth, son of John L. Bosworth and uncle of John Bosworth Fling. Records held in this collection include his personal correspondence, including letters to and from Martha Dodd, records from the Department of Public Safety, school records, photographs, and manuscripts and early editions from some of his stories and his novel.","John Bosworth Fling (Jack Fling) was a scholar and world traveler from Elkins, WV. His grandfather was John L. 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Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, such as the Virginia Public Records Act (Code of Virginia. § 42.1-76-91); and the Virginia Freedom of Information Act (Code of Virginia § 2.2-3705.5). Confidential material may include, but is not limited to, educational, medical, and personnel records. If sensitive material is found in this collection, please contact a staff member immediately. The disclosure of personally identifiable information pertaining to a living individual may have legal consequences for which the College of William and Mary assumes no responsibility.","Organized into three series: Series 1: John L. Bosworth, Series 2: John Woodbridge Bosworth, Series 3: John Bosworth Fling."," Note: Some items in Series 3 relate to all of the men (For example: photographs and news clippings.).","John Bosworth Fling, commonly known as Jack Fling by friends and family, was an active scholar, traveler, and the author of most of the works in this collection. Jack wrote dedicatedly to his family while he was away in school and during his travels through Europe in the 1950s. He got his first degree at Harvard in the early 1940s, after that he went to Columbia University for a Master's degree. When he was a child, John Bosworth-Fling suffered from polio, and was plagued by effects of the disease, paralysis of the legs, his entire life. Because of his paralysis he was not drafted during World War II and instead studied during the war years. For a few years he worked for the March of the Dimes and National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis as a speaker and advocate for childhood vaccination against polio. The vaccination became available in 1951. In 1953 Jack was studying at Northwestern University where his focus had turned to journalism. After his studies at Harvard, Columbia, and Northwestern, Jack traveled throughout Europe, writing frequently to friends and family about his trip. He then sought positions as a professor of high school teacher. He was active in the decisions of his parents and very dedicated to his family."," Further information about this individual or organization may be available in the Special Collections Research Center Wiki:  . Further information about this individual or organization may be available in the Special Collections Research Center Wiki:  .","Accessioned and minimally processed by Benjamin Bromley, Public Services Archives Specialist, in October 2011. Processing and finding aid completed by Rachel Thomas, SCRC staff, in January 2012.","Letters, postcards, printed material, photographs, and other related material, circa 1890-1960, of John L. Bosworth, John Woodbridge Bosworth and John (Jack) Bosworth Fling. Includes photographs of the three men, copies of printed works written by John W. Bosworth, and printed material relating to John W. Bosworth's time as a police officer and superintendent of public safety for West Virginia. The family is from Elkins, Randolph County, West Virginia.  The letters encompass World War II in the United States, travel through Europe in the 1950s, polio, management of their rental properties, many references to Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Warm Springs, March of the Dimes, the Democratic party, life at Harvard and Columbia University, and popular films. 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Acc. 2011.566","/repositories/2/resources/8506","Bristow Family Papers","Middlesex County (Va.)--History","Vietnam War, 1961-1975","Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Protest movements--United States","Letters (correspondence)","Permission is required for use of portions of this collection, namely the folder of material relating to Elizabeth Jean Acker Bristow's career at Wayne State University. Consult a staff member for details. Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, such as the Virginia Public Records Act (Code of Virginia. § 42.1-76-91); and the Virginia Freedom of Information Act (Code of Virginia § 2.2-3705.5). Confidential material may include, but is not limited to, educational, medical, and personnel records. If sensitive material is found in this collection, please contact a staff member immediately. The disclosure of personally identifiable information pertaining to a living individual may have legal consequences for which the College of William and Mary assumes no responsibility.","Organized into three series: Series 1: Correspondence; Series 2: Personal Materials; Series 3: Scrapbooks.","Further information about this individual or organization may be available in the Special Collections Research Center Wiki:  .","Accessioned and minimally processed by Benjamin Bromley in September 2011. Processing and finding aid completed by  Lauren Wallace SCRC Staff in September 2011.","Artifacts were transferred to the Manuscripts Artifact Collection (Mss. 1.03): Red and White Striped Cloth Fragment (2011.566.01) and Rust Colored Cloth Fragment (2011.566.02)","Papers, circa the 1930s and the 1960s-1970s, of the Bristow Family of Middlesex County, Virginia. The collection includes letters written to Joseph Christian Bristow, Jr., while at the University of Richmond and letters written to him while serving in the United States Army during the Vietnam War. The primary correspondent is Kitty Major, of Stormont, Virginia, who seems to be in a relationship with Bristow for most of their correspondence. Topics include Major's daily activities, events happening in Stormont and Urbanna, marriages, local gossip, and Bristow's lack of communication with Major, among other items. Other correspondents include Kitty Major's sister, Deborah Major, Bristow's parents, people with whom Bristow went to the University of Richmond, and other soldiers, among others. Included is a card mentioning the protests against the war in Vietnam."," There are also photographs, news clippings, and material relating to the graduate education of Joseph Bristow, Jr., and Elizabeth Jean Acker Bristow at Wayne State University, as well as two scrapbooks of Mabel Irby. One scrapbook is a poetry assignment and the other a travel scrapbook of the western United States in 1939. Irby is the maiden name of Katherine Bristow, the mother of Joseph Christian Bristow, Jr.","This series consists of correspondence composed by Kitty Major, Deborah Major, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Christian Bristow, school friends, other soldiers, and family friends. The bulk of the correspondence originates from Kitty Major who appears to be in a relationship with Joseph Christian Bristow, Jr.","This series consists of the university records of Joseph Christian Bristow at the University of Richmond and Wayne State University and the university records of Elizabeth J. Acker Bristow at Wayne State University. Also included are records relating to Joseph Bristow's service in Vietnam as well as personal photographs, many of which are undated and unidentified from the early to mid-20th century.","This series consists of two books compiled by Mabel Irby. The first scrapbook is a poetry assignment complied by Mabel Irby. The final page of the book includes the notation, \"A+ You've made a rich and beautiful book!\" –L.O.A. Included in the back are other assignments completed by Mabel Irby in 1935. The second scrapbook is a travel scrapbook of Mabel Irby's vacation taken in July and August of 1939. Also included is an itinerary labeled \"MAW's Vacation\" where the author asks for pardon from Emerson Hough, author of the short story MAW's Vacation. 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One scrapbook is a poetry assignment and the other a travel scrapbook of the western United States in 1939. Irby is the maiden name of Katherine Bristow, the mother of Joseph Christian Bristow, Jr.","This series consists of correspondence composed by Kitty Major, Deborah Major, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Christian Bristow, school friends, other soldiers, and family friends. The bulk of the correspondence originates from Kitty Major who appears to be in a relationship with Joseph Christian Bristow, Jr.","This series consists of the university records of Joseph Christian Bristow at the University of Richmond and Wayne State University and the university records of Elizabeth J. Acker Bristow at Wayne State University. Also included are records relating to Joseph Bristow's service in Vietnam as well as personal photographs, many of which are undated and unidentified from the early to mid-20th century.","This series consists of two books compiled by Mabel Irby. The first scrapbook is a poetry assignment complied by Mabel Irby. The final page of the book includes the notation, \"A+ You've made a rich and beautiful book!\" –L.O.A. Included in the back are other assignments completed by Mabel Irby in 1935. The second scrapbook is a travel scrapbook of Mabel Irby's vacation taken in July and August of 1939. Also included is an itinerary labeled \"MAW's Vacation\" where the author asks for pardon from Emerson Hough, author of the short story MAW's Vacation. 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The Caley's were white middle class women who lived in Sierra Madre, California for the majority of their lives. The personal letters and diaries of three generations of women contain topics related to the household operations, Spanish Flu 1918, farm operations in Ohio 1918, family finances, health concerns, local and national issues (Kennedy Assassination (1963), Watts Riots (1965) as well as social and religious activities.\u003c/p\u003e","label":"Abstract Or Scope"}},"breadcrumbs":{"id":"https://arvasarchive.org/catalog/viw_repositories_2_resources_8525#breadcrumbs","type":"document_value","attributes":{"value":{"id":"viw_repositories_2_resources_8525","ead_ssi":"viw_repositories_2_resources_8525","_root_":"viw_repositories_2_resources_8525","_nest_parent_":"viw_repositories_2_resources_8525","ead_source_url_ssi":"data/oai/WM/repositories_2_resources_8525.xml","title_filing_ssi":"Caley Family Papers","title_ssm":["Caley Family Papers"],"title_tesim":["Caley Family Papers"],"unitdate_ssm":["circa 1895-1968"],"unitdate_inclusive_ssm":["circa 1895-1968"],"level_ssm":["collection"],"level_ssim":["Collection"],"unitid_ssm":["Mss. Acc. 2012.192","/repositories/2/resources/8525"],"text":["Mss. Acc. 2012.192","/repositories/2/resources/8525","Caley Family Papers","California--History--1850-1950","California--Social life and customs","Diaries","Letters (correspondence)","Printed ephemera","Collection is open to all researchers. Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, such as the Virginia Public Records Act (Code of Virginia. § 42.1-76-91); and the Virginia Freedom of Information Act (Code of Virginia § 2.2-3705.5). Confidential material may include, but is not limited to, educational, medical, and personnel records. If sensitive material is found in this collection, please contact a staff member immediately. The disclosure of personally identifiable information pertaining to a living individual may have legal consequences for which the College of William and Mary assumes no responsibility.","This collection is arranged into four series: Series 1: Mary Davidson Caley, 1895-1962; Series 2: Maybelle Caley Barker, 1897-1969; Series 3: Hilda Caley Noble, 1917-1968; Series 4: Nadine Noble Sondergard, 1957-1967.","  Mary Davidson Caley, (1861-1962) married (1887) William Paul Caley (1859-1943) and moved from Ohio to South Pasadena, California with her two daughters, Maybelle Caley Barker (1889-1967) and Hilda Caley Noble (1888 - 1972). Mary Davidson Caley was told to move to California from Ohio due to her health. The Caley's eventually settled in Sierra Madre in 1895 where William was the first Street Superintendent and Tax Collector. Maybelle Caley Barker married former Army Captain Clyde (Clinton) Barker (1889-1936) in 1918. Maybelle and Clinton did not have any children. When Clinton died (1936), Maybelle never remarried and remained in Sierra Madre. Hilda Caley Noble (1888 - 1972) married John Noble and their daughter Nadine Noble Sondergard (1928- 2008) married (1965) Ray Sondergard (1920-1998).\n\n ","Administrative History:  Mary Davidson Caley, (1861-1962) married (1887) William Paul Caley (1859-1943) and moved from Ohio to South Pasadena, California with her two daughters, Maybelle Caley Barker (1889-1967) and Hilda Caley Noble (1888 - 1972).  Mary Davidson Caley was told to move to California from Ohio due to her health.  The Caley's eventually settled in Sierra Madre in 1895 where William was the first Street Superintendent and Tax Collector. Maybelle Caley Barker married former Army Captain Clyde (Clinton) Barker (1889-1936) in 1918.  Maybelle and Clinton did not have any children. When Clinton died (1936), Maybelle never remarried and remained in Sierra Madre. Hilda Caley Noble (1888 - 1972) married John Noble and their daughter Nadine Noble Sondergard (1928- 2008) married (1965) Ray Sondergard (1920-1998).\n\n ","Mary Davidson Caley, (1861-1962) married (1887) William Paul Caley (1859-1943) and moved from Ohio to South Pasadena, California with her two daughters, Maybelle Caley Barker (1889-1967) and Hilda Caley Noble (1888 - 1972). Mary Davidson Caley was told to move to California from Ohio due to her health. The Caley's eventually settled in Sierra Madre in 1895 where William was the first Street Superintendent and Tax Collector. Maybelle Caley Barker married former Army Captain Clyde (Clinton) Barker (1889-1936) in 1918. Maybelle and Clinton did not have any children. When Clinton died (1936), Maybelle never remarried and remained in Sierra Madre. Hilda Caley Noble (1888 - 1972) married John Noble and their daughter Nadine Noble Sondergard (1928- 2008) married (1965) Ray Sondergard (1920-1998).","Mary Davidson Caley, (1861-1962) married (1887) William Paul Caley (1859-1943) and moved from Ohio to South Pasadena, California with her two daughters, Maybelle Caley Barker (1889-1967) and Hilda Caley Noble (1888 - 1972).  Mary Davidson Caley was told to move to California from Ohio due to her health.  The Caley's eventually settled in Sierra Madre in 1895 where William was the first Street Superintendent and Tax Collector. Maybelle Caley Barker married former Army Captain Clyde (Clinton) Barker (1889-1936) in 1918.  Maybelle and Clinton did not have any children. When Clinton died (1936), Maybelle never remarried and remained in Sierra Madre. Hilda Caley Noble (1888 - 1972) married John Noble and their daughter Nadine Noble Sondergard (1928- 2008) married (1965) Ray Sondergard (1920-1998).","Artifacts were transferred upon receipt to the Manuscripts Artifact Collection (Mss. 1.03): Green leather clutch with metal letters MC (2012.192.01) and pair of nylon white elbow length gloves (2012.192.02ab)."," Information about related materials is available at http://guides.swem.wm.edu/scrc-women","The collection is mostly personal correspondence and diaries, chiefly 1895-1968, collected and written by Mary Davidson Caley, her two daughters, Maybelle Caley Barker and Hilda Caley Noble, and Hilda's daughter, Nadine Noble Sondergard. The Caley's were white middle class women who lived in Sierra Madre, California for the majority of their lives.  The personal letters and diaries of three generations of women contain topics related to the household operations, Spanish Flu 1918, farm operations in Ohio 1918, family finances, health concerns, local and national issues (Kennedy Assassination (1963), Watts Riots (1965) as well as social and religious activities."," Maybelle's, Hilda's and Nadine's diary entries and letters on Nadine and Ray Sondergard's courtship and early years together reflect the different perspectives of the women and their family interpersonal relationships and dynamics.  Nadine married late in life for the time (36 years old) and it was her husband Ray's (45 years old) second marriage. He had an uneven employment history. They had at least one son. The Caley women lived and traveled up and down the US northwest coast from California to Oregon and frequently visited Ohio for extended periods. The women's diaries span from 1951-1966 while the letters are from 1895-1968.  Mary Davidson Caley and Maybelle Caley Barker have a few individual diaries and notebooks from earlier years. Correspondence from over 80 friends and relatives of the Caley's addressed to the women is included as well as 87 photographs of family, friends and landscapes.  The correspondence is filed and organized by receipent rather than sender.","Correspondence included in the series was recieved by Mary Davidson Caley and William P. Caley. Correspondence is between Mary Davidson Caley, her two daughters Hilda Caley Noble and Maybelle Caley Barker and numerous friends along with several photographs of family, friends and landscapes scenes.","Letters about health issues, Christmas gifts in 1895, and fashions between family and friends.","Predominantly letters from brother-in-law, J.C. Caley concerning health of the family, business dealings, and letter from Maybelle Caley Barker on ship to Washington.","Letters between family and friends about health issues, costs of groceries, meals and dining, fashions, weather, work stories, and updates on status of old friends (sick or deceased) in Ohio. Letter about automobile ride that took three hours for 44 miles in Ohio (1917). Numerous letters from Maybelle Caley Barker to Mary Davidson Caley from trip to Ohio (1917).","Letters about health issues, costs of groceries, meals and dining, women's fashions, women's employment opportunties, weather, work stories, and updates on status of old friends (sick or deceased) from Maybelle Caley Barker and Hilda Caley Noble. Numerous letters from Hilda Caley Noble to Mary Davidson Caley during trip to Painesville, Ohio (1918).","Weekly letters from Maybelle Caley Barker and Hilda Caley Noble from Ohio about health issues (deaths from Spanish Flu outbreak), shopping, cost of groceries, meals and dining, fashion, weather, farm operations in Ohio, World War I Armistice Celebrations, women's employment, updates on status of old friends (sick or deceased), working with Red Cross, anti-Catholic feelings.","Letters to Mary Davidson Caley and William Paul Caley from Maybelle Caley Barker, Hilda Caley Noble and friends in Ohio about health issues, shopping, costs of groceries, meals and dining, fashions, weather, dating, finances, updates on status of family and friends (sick or deceased), and news of relative returning from World War I and his experience in the Argonne Forest.","Letters to Mary Davidson Caley and William Paul Caley from Maybelle Caley Barker, Hilda Caley Noble and friends in Ohio about health issues, farm operations (pigs dying of Cholera), housekeeping with new washing machine, shopping, costs of groceries, meals and dining, fashions, weather, dating, finances, updates on status of family and friends (sick or deceased), and Christmas shopping and presents","Letters to Mary Davidson Caley and William Paul Caley from Maybelle Caley Barker, Hilda Caley Noble and friends in Ohio about health issues (Influenza Flu), farm operations (selling chickens and ducks), housekeeping, women employment, shopping, costs of groceries, meals and dining, fashions, weather, dating, finances, updates on status of family and friends, and going out for entertainment (movies and shows). Comments on Baptists, Methodists, Christian Scientists, and Jews interspersed throughout letters in sometimes less than flattering context.","Letters to Mary Davidson Caley and William Paul Caley from Maybelle Caley Barker, Hilda Caley Noble and friends in Ohio about health issues, farm operations housekeeping, women's employment, shopping, cost of groceries, meals and dining, fashions, weather, dating, finances, and updates on status of family and friends.","Letters to Mary Davidson Caley from Maybelle Caley Barker, Hilda Caley Noble and friends in Ohio about health issues, women's employment, shopping, costs of groceries, fashions, weather, social gossip, finances, and updates on status of family and friends. Letter from friend on trip through New Orleans, Biloxi, Panama Canal Zone and stops in Central America.","Letters to Mary Davidson Caley from Hilda Caley Noble in Mantua, Ohio and friends about health issues, children (Nadine Noble Sondergard), cost of groceries, weather, social gossip, finances, and updates on status of family and friends. Impact of Great Depression.","Letters to Mary Davidson Caley from Hilda Caley Noble in Mantua, Ohio and friends about health issues, children (Nadine Noble Sondergard), relations with in-laws, costs of groceries, weather, social gossip, finances, and updates on status of family and friends.","Letters to Mary Davidson Caley from family, cousins and friends about health issues, children, weather, social gossip, and updates on status of family and friends. Effects of Great Depression.","Letters to Mary Davidson Caley from Maybelle Caley Barker, Hilda Caley Noble, family, cousins and friends about health issues, children, weather, social gossip, updates on status of family and friends, death of family members, and social activities.","Letters to Mary Davidson Caley from Maybelle Caley Barker, Hilda Caley Noble family, cousins and friends about health issues, children, weather, social gossip, updates on status of family and friends, death of family members, and social activities. Long letter from friend about attendance at Missionary Conference in Camp Webster, Kansas in 1954 that reveals missionary activities in Sierra Leone Africa and New Mexico.","Undated and loose pages of letters to Mary Davidson Caley from Maybelle Caley Barker, Hilda Caley Noble family, cousins and friends about health issues, children, weather, comments on World War I (dislike of Germans and reactions within social circles), social gossip, updates on status of family and friends, death of family members, and social activities.","Printed materials: funeral announcements, newspaper articles on Senator Everett Colby (New Jersey), Republican primaries, crime, color prints pages from books, Practical Astrology magazine Gemini (June 1929), Isle of Man picture Calendar (1959), Magazine of World Manx Association, (June 1927), Oregon Schedule of Events (1967), Bonneville Dam brochure (1965).","Photographs in family portrait settings including Mary Caley Davidson, William Paul Caley, Hilda Caley Noble, Maybelle Caley Barker, Nadine Noble Sondergard, Swans, Mame Veber.","Two small diaries (6 cm x 14 cm)from American Bridge Company of New York. They belonged to Irving Dickinson (unknown relation to Caley) contain regular entries on weather observations, receipt of letters from family, and health issues.","Small (6 x 10 cm) address book (Teepee and Painesville, Ohio cover), contains family birthdays and Christmas gifts from 1947-1948; small black diary (5 x 7.5 cm) 1948 with sporadic entry for January 1948 on social events and dinning out; small notebook(8 x 13 cm) (1922) containing entries on numerous flowers and vegetable planting, blooming and harvesting dates; small red notebook (8.5 x 10 cm) for Christmas gifts (1906); small (8 x 15 cm) red water damaged diary (1911/1912) from Maybelle Caley Barker containing short and long hand script of diary entries by day but not date.","Photographs of people including: Dean Snyder,William Caley, John Vanderburg, M.L. Snedden, Elizabeth Turner, Warren Eugene Pennell (1929), Ruth Evely Pennell (1929), Mary Graham, Alberta and Frank Sheets, Stella Norris (1943), Frances Zigler (1943), Margie Meachum (1937), Diana Meachum (1937), Trent Meachum (1937), women in bathing suits (1930/1940/1950?); unknown people and scenery from the following locations: New York Harbor with Statute of Liberty (early 20th Century), Ford Model A, Palm Springs motel (1950s), Sutter Mill, California (1950s).","Spreadsheet of names generated from notes attached to letters when collection was processed along with some web research used in compiling the biographical information.","Correspondence included in the series was recieved by Maybelle Caley Barker. Correspondence is between Maybelle Caley Barker, her sister Hilda Caley Noble, her neice Nadine Noble Sondergard, and numerous friends. Nine diaries from the 1950s and 1960s along with one diary from 1915 are in the series. Several photographs of Maybelle Caley Barker with family and friends are also included.","Letters to Maybelle Caley Barker from Hilda Caley Noble, Nadine Noble Sondergard, family, cousins and friends about health issues, children, weather, social gossip, updates on status of family and friends, death of family members, social activities. Correspondence from Church activities, Prohibition activities (1914),World War II Home front activities in California (1942).","Letters to Maybelle Caley Barker from Hilda Caley Noble, Nadine Noble Sondergard, family, cousins and friends about health issues, mental illness, divorce, alcoholism, children, weather, social gossip, updates on status of family and friends, death of family members, and social activities. Letters from friend who moved back to Guadalajara, Mexico (1955 \u0026 1957).","Letters to Maybelle Caley Barker from Hilda Caley Noble, family, cousins and friends about health issues, children, weather, social gossip, updates on status of family and friends, and death of family members. Trailer park living in 1963-1965, race relations, racism discussions from friends, and reactions to Marines going to Vietnam (1965).","Letters to Maybelle Caley Barker from Hilda Caley Noble and friends about health issues, weather, social gossip, updates on status of family and friends, and social activities. Complicated family relations between Nadine and Ray, race riots (1966), and crime.","Letters to Maybelle Caley Barker from friends about health issues, weather, social gossip, updates on status of family and friends, and social activities. Opposition to President Johnson and war in Vietnam.","Letters to Maybelle Caley Barker from friends about health issues, updates on status of family and friends, and social activities.","School notebook and diary (19 x 24 cm) brown, 1906-1907, writer was 17/18 years old. School notebook with short stories, school reports on Washington Irving, George Washington, exams for first part of book and diary entries interspersed through second part of the notebook along with loose leaf pages about daily activities, weather observations, homework, baking and cooking, and teachers.","Scope and Contents Diary (13.5 x 20 cm), red brick, 1915, (1920, 1921), partial and full page daily entries, on her activities in Sierra Madre, California; playing tennis, dancing lessons, Courtship with Harry Barker (future husband), sparse mention of local, national or world events(\"Lusitania sunk by Germans probably means war\"(8 May). Subjects also include holiday and birthday celebrations with gifts, weather observations, daily household operations, correspondence from family and friends, health issues, lunches and social activities, deaths of friends and family, and local travel. Appears as though diary may have been double used, edited or updated in 1916-1921; entries in pencil. Uses shorthand for some entries in diary for sensitive items or practicing,and some French language entries. No entries 18 July - 17 August, 20 AUG - 3 September, 6-21 November. Updates from 1920 and 1921 include family and friends updates on marriage and death. Comments written after reading in 1937 and 1959. Diary (14 x 19.5 cm) green, 1959, writer was 70 years old, partial and full page daily entries (except for vacation during September) on her activities; sparse mention of local, national or world events (disliked raising taxes-voted against school tax, local crimes, bus strike, meat-cutters strikes); weather observations, daily household operations, correspondence from family and friends, health issues of self and Nadine Noble Sondergard (\"invalid of the family\" (31 March), historical society business and tours, lunches and social activities, financial status, pets (dog Moo-Moo), holiday and birthday celebrations with gifts, deaths of friends and family, local travel, and contains genealogical information on last two pages.","Diary (13.5 x 19.5 cm), black, 1951, writer was 62 years old, mainly partial and a few full page daily entries on her activities; sparse to no mention of local, national or world events. Subjects include holiday and birthday celebrations with gifts, weather observations, daily household operations, cooking and meals, correspondence from family and friends, lunches and social activities, financial transactions, deaths of friends and family, local travel and vacations. Diary (13.5 x 19.5 cm), red brick, 1952, writer was 63 years old, mainly partial and a few full page daily entries on her activities; sparse to no mention of local, national or world events; (President Eisenhower Nomination, 11 July, Eisenhower wins in landslide, 4 November. Subjects include holiday and birthday celebrations with gifts, weather observations, church activities, election board activities, daily household operations, cooking and meals, correspondence from family and friends, lunches and social activities, financial transactions (budget and list of bank assets in back of diary), deaths of friends and family, local travel, and vacations.","Diary (13.5 x 19.5 cm) green, 1963, writer was 73/74 years old, mainly partial and a few full page daily entries on her activities; sparse to no mention of local, national or world events. President Kennedy's baby died (8-9 August) Billy Graham Revival at Olympic Stadium (20 August), President Kennedy assassination (22-25 November). subjects include holiday and birthday celebrations with gifts; weather observations, daily household operations, cooking and meals, correspondence from family and friends, lunches and social activities, historical society activities, pets (Moo-Moo), health issues (Nadine Noble Sondergard, Hilda Caley Noble), financial transactions, deaths of friends and family, local travel, and vacations. Diary (13.5 x 19.5 cm) brick red, 1964, writer was 74/75 years old, mainly partial and a few full page daily entries on her activities; sparse to no mention of local, national or world events;(Gen. Douglas MacArthur died age 84 \"he was beloved by all\", Voted for Goldwater on Election day (2 June). Subjects include holiday and birthday celebrations with gifts activities; weather observations, daily household operations, cooking and meals, correspondence from family and friends, lunches and social activities (bridge club), historical society activities, senior citizen activities, pets (Moo-Moo), Ray Sondergard and Nadine Noble Sondergard courtship (9 November-30 December), financial transactions, and deaths of friends and family.","Diary (13.5 x 19.5 cm), olive green, 1965, writer was 75/76 years old, mainly partial and a few full page daily entries on her activities (week long stretches with no entries due to vacation and illnesses); sparse to no mention of local, national or world events; (Space walk with Ed White 3-7 June, \"Negroes rioting in in LA\", Watts Riots11-15 August. Subjects include holiday and birthday celebrations with gifts, weather observations, daily household operations, cooking and meals, correspondence from family and friends, lunches and social activities (bridge club, playing Canasta), historical society activities, social activities, Liberace concert (9 April), health issues, senior citizen activities, pets (Moo-Moo), church business, Ray Sondergard and Nadine Noble Sondergard courtship, Ray goes back to 1st wife (\"couldn't stand the TV dinners she (Nadine) served him,\" (29 Jul), financial transactions, deaths of friends and family, local travel, and vacations. Diary (13.5 x 19.5 cm), black, 1966, writer was 76/77 years old, mainly partial and a few full page daily entries on her activities (week or longer stretches with no entries due to vacation and increasing bouts of illnesses); sparse to no mention of local, national or world events \"Conditions bad in Vietnam against USA\" (8 April), Riot in Watts (18 May), Reagan won primary (8 June), memories of father (13 June), \"Republican's had big victory\" (8 November). Subjects include holiday and birthday celebrations with gifts, weather observations, daily household operations, cooking and meals, correspondence from family and friends, lunches and social activities (bridge club, playing Canasta), historical society activities, health issues (self, Ray) senior citizen activities, pets (Moo-Moo died,1 October, misses \"so much\"), church business, Ray Sondergard and Nadine Noble Sondergard renewed courtship, Ray quitting jobs, marriage (15 April), Ray ill and can't/won't work (26 August), financial transactions, and deaths of friends and family.","Photographs in family portrait settings of Maybelle Caley Barker with Marian Shaw, Mattie Spencer, Marian Brant, Gertrude Seaman, (Maybelle as child in 1895).","Correspondence included in the series was recieved by Hilda Caley Noble. Correspondence is between her daughter, Nadine Noble Sondergard, her sister, Maybelle Caley Barker, and numerous friends. Ten diaries from the 1950s and 1960s with daily full page entries are in the series. Photographs of Hilda Caley Noble with family and friends are also included.","Letters to Hilda Caley Noble from Maybelle Caley Barker, Nadine Noble Sondergard and friends about health issues, weather, updates on status of family and friends, and social activities. Title for House in Sierra Madre, California.","Letters to Hilda Caley Noble from Maybelle Caley Barker and friends about health issues, updates on status of family and friends, social activities, taxes, crime, pets, and cooking.","Letters to Hilda Caley Noble from Nadine Noble Sondergard, Maybelle Caley Barker, and Ray Sondergard on Nadine's Honeymoon and establishing new household, updates on status of family and friends, social activities, and Ray Sondergard's employment.","Letters to Hilda Caley Noble from Nadine Noble Sondergard and Ray Sondergard on establishing new household, cooking, social activities and Ray Sondergard's employment, illness, and firing.","Letters to Hilda Caley Noble from Nadine Noble Sondergard on establishing new household, cooking, social activities, Ray Sondergard's new employment, illness and moving to new house.","Letters to Hilda Caley Noble from Nadine Noble Sondergard on running household, cooking, social activities, travels, family health issues and sympathy cards from friends on Maybelle Caley Barker.","Letters to Hilda Caley Noble from Nadine Noble Sondergard on running household, cooking, social activities, travels, family health issues and sympathy cards from friends on Maybelle Caley Barker's death and Nadine's pregnancy.","Letters to Hilda Caley Noble from Nadine Noble Sondergard on running household, child rearing, cooking, social activities, travels, family health issues (cancer death of mother-in-law), Ray Sondergard looking for employment, and friends on health issues, weather, social gossip, and updates on status of family and friends.","Letters to Hilda Caley Noble from Nadine Noble Sondergard child health issues, cooking, social activities, travels, family health issues, and concern about weight gain. Ray Sondergard going on welfare due to illness, friends on health issues, weather, social gossip, and updates on status of family and friends.","Diary (13.5 x 19.5), red brick, 1954, writer was 65/66 years old, full page daily entries on her activities along with notes on Maybelle Caley Barkers and Nadine Noble Sondergard activities with little to no recording of how author felt about them; no mention of local, national or world events except 1954 World Series between Cleveland Indians and New York Giants, some mention of television shows. Subjects also include holiday and birthday celebrations with gifts, weather observations, daily household operations, correspondence and telephone calls from family and friends, health issues of self and mother (Mary Davidson Caley who lives with them), church attendance, shopping, cooking, division of chores within the household, lunches and social activities, financial status, other families' weddings, and holiday and birthday celebrations with gifts. Hilda Caley Noble liked to doodle in the margins.","Diary (13.5 x 19.5 cm), red, 1956, writer was 67/68 years old, full page daily entries on her activities along with notes on Maybelle Caley Barkers and Nadine Noble Sondergard activities with little to no recording of how author felt about them; sporadic mention of local, national or world events such as earthquakes, train wrecks, fires, H Bomb detonation (17 May), bomb explosion at bus station (7 June), President Eisenhower heart attack (8-9, 11 Jun), ship collision (26 July); Canasta parties, regular mention of television shows ($64,000 Question). Subjects include holiday and birthday celebrations with gifts, weather observations, daily household operations, correspondence and telephone calls from family and friends, health issues of self and mother (Mary Davidson Caley who lives with them), church attendance, Nadine Noble Sondergard and bible school, shopping, cooking, supper menus, division of chores within the household, lunches and social activities, financial status, pets (birds) other families' weddings, holiday and birthday celebrations with gifts, deaths of friends and family, and local travel. Hilda Caley Noble liked to doodle on the margins and use different color inks including green, purple, blue, red, black. Diary (13.5 x 19.5 cm), brick red, 1957, writer was 68/69 years old, full page daily entries on her activities along with notes on Maybelle Caley Barkers and Nadine Noble Sondergard activities with little to no recording of how author felt about them; sporadic mention of local, national or world events (President Eisenhower inauguration (21 January), Ku Klux Klan cross burning (9 February), President Eisenhower's stroke (26-27 November). Subjects also include holiday and birthday celebrations with gifts, weather observations, daily household operations, regular mention of television shows, correspondence and telephone calls from family and friends, health issues of self and Nadine Noble Sondergard, church attendance, Nadine Noble Sondergard and bible school, shopping at the Safeway grocery store, cooking, supper menus, division of chores within the household, lunches and social activities, financial status, pets, other families weddings, historical society business and tours, deaths of friends and family, and local travel. Hilda Caley Noble liked to doodle in the margins and used different color inks including green, purple, blue, red, black.","Diary (9.5 x 13.5 cm), maroon, 1958, writer was 69/70 years old, full page daily entries on her activities along with notes on Maybelle Caley Barker's and Nadine Noble Sondergard's activities with little to no recording of how author felt about them; sparse mention of local, national or world events, regular mention of television shows. Subjects also include holiday and birthday celebrations with gifts activities; weather observations, daily household operations, correspondence from family and friends, health issues of self and Nadine Noble Sondergard, church attendance, Nadine Noble Sondergard and bible school, shopping at the Safeway grocery store, cooking, supper menus, division of chores within the household, lunches and social activities, financial status, pets (birds \u0026 cat), other families' weddings, holiday and birthday celebrations with gifts, deaths of friends and family, and local travel. Hilda Caley Noble liked to doodle in the margins.","Diary (13.5 x 19.5 cm), red, 1960, writer was 71/72 Years old, full page daily entries on her activities along with notes on Maybelle Caley Barker's and Nadine Noble Sondergard's activities with little to no recording of how author felt about them; sparse mention of local, national or world events: President Eisenhower coming to Los Angeles, California (27 January), Eisenhower's South American Trip (22 February), and earthquakes. Subjects also include holiday and birthday celebrations with gifts activities; weather observations, daily household operations, correspondence from family and friends, health issues of self (1st \u0026 2nd surgical operations 21 \u0026 29 Sepember ) writes about \"very important election between Mr. Kennedy \u0026 Mr. Nixon for President\" and Maybelle's work with precinct and vote tallies (8 November), mother (Mary Davidson Caley) and Nadine Noble Sondergard (colitis), church attendance, cooking, supper menus, division of chores within the household, lunches and social activities, financial transactions, pets (dog-Moo-Moo), and deaths of friends and family. Diary (13.5 x 19.5 cm), olive green, 1962, writer was 73/74 years old, full page daily entries on her activities along with notes on Maybelle Caley Barker's and Nadine Noble Sondergard's activities with little to no recording of how author felt about them; sparse mention of local, national or world events: (Cuban Missile Crisis (22 October-02 November) grocery stores empty, stocking up on food, war at any time, ships and blockade, dismantling bases in Cuba ). Subjects also include mother's death (Mary Davidson Caley) (23 January), church attendance, cooking, supper menus, division of chores within the household, lunches and social activities, financial transactions, pets (dog Moo-Moo), holiday and birthday celebrations with gifts, and deaths of friends and family.","Scope and Contents Diary (13.5 x 19.5 cm), red, 1963, writer was 74/75 Years old, full page daily entries on her activities along with notes on Maybelle Caley Barkers and Nadine Noble Sondergard activities with little to no recording of how author felt about them; sparse mention of local, national or world events (President Kennedy leaving for Europe (22 June), \"Negroes picketing in Los Angeles\", Pope Paul VI (24 June), Forest fires and Earthquakes, President Kennedy baby death (9-10 August 13), Billy Graham crusade (20 August), President Kennedy assassination and President Johnson new president (22-25 November). Subjects also include church attendance, cooking, supper menus, division of chores within the household, lunches and social activities (playing canasta, Senior Citizen meetings), financial transactions, budgets, health issues of Nadine Noble Sondergard and herself (fall), pets (dog Moo-Moo), holiday and birthday celebrations with gifts, and deaths of friends and family, watching TV on colored set, notes on TV actors death, TV Shows: Ed Sullivan, Lawrence Welk, Hazel, Lassie, Petticoat Junction, and TV being broke is problem (January)(June). Diary (13.5 x 19.5 cm), white,1964, writer was 75/76 years old, full page daily entries on her activities along with notes on Maybelle Caley Barkers and Nadine Noble Sondergard activities with little to no recording of how author felt about them; sparse mention of local, national or world events (Alaska earthquake (27 March), bus strike (June), Mexico City earthquake (6 July), forest fire (24 September). Entires also include church attendance, supper menus, lunches, and social activities. (playing Canasta, senior citizen meetings, Historical Association, Disneyland visit (7 October), 1st mention of Ray Sondergard (7 October), vacation in Long Beach, California (October), Ray and Nadine's courtship, Ray proposed to Nadine (21 November), financial transactions, budgets, health issues of Nadine Noble Sondergard, pets (dog Moo-Moo), holiday and birthday celebrations with gifts, weather observations, and deaths of friends and family. TV shows include Petticoat Junction, Beverly Hillbillies, Hazel, Lawrence Welk, Republican convention with Goldwater (13-17 July), Dick Van Dyke, Lassie, Candid Camera, Election coverage (3 November),\"Johnson won by a landside\".","Scope and Contents Diary (13.5 x 19.5 cm), red, 1965, writer was 76/77 years old, full page daily entries on her activities along with notes on Maybelle Caley Barkers, Nadine Noble Sondergard and Ray Sondergard activities with little recording of how author felt about them except for Ray Sondergard; sparse mention of local, national or world events. Winston Churchill funeral (30 January), earthquake in Seattle (29 April), Ray and Nadine's courtship, on and off engagement, Hilda's dislike of Ray (\"I am afraid he will never amount to anything as he will not work only a short time then gives up\" )(10 June), Ray goes back to first wife (28 July). Ray leaves wife and back in Long Beach and contacts Nadine (6 December), Sierra Madre earthquake (16 July), riot in Los Angeles with \"colored people in Watts\", National Guard sent in, curfew in Los Angeles, riot in Pasadena, CA (12-17 August), blackout in northeastern US and Canada (9 November). Also includes holiday and birthday celebrations with gifts, playing Canasta, pets (dog Moo-Moo), weather observations, and deaths of friends and family and TV shows include Lawrence Welk, Petticoat Junction, Ed Sullivan. Diary (13.5 x 19.5 cm), black, 1966, writer was 77/78 years old, full page daily entries on her activities along with notes on Maybelle Caley Barkers, Nadine Noble Sondergard and Ray Sondergard activities with little recording of how author felt about them. Subjects include Ray and Nadine's courtship ( Ray and Nadine date again (21 January), secretly married in Las Vegas (27 January) but Hilda didn't \"know about it until after Easter\" (11 April), honeymoon trip to Portland, Oregon (15-26 April), Nadine and Ray move to Salem, Ray losing jobs, sparse mention of local, national or world events, holiday and birthday celebrations with gifts, playing Canasta, pets (dog Moo-Moo), health issues (Ray Sondergard, Maybelle Caley Barker), weather observations, and deaths of friends and family and TV shows include Lassie, My Favorite Martian, and Ed Sullivan.","Photographs in family portrait settings of Hilda Caley Noble with Nadine Noble Sondergard and family members.","Correspondence included in the series was recieved by Nadine Noble Sondergard. Correspondence is between her mother, Hilda Caley Noble, her aunt, Maybelle Caley Barker, and friends. Four diaries from the 1950s and 1960s are also in the series.","Diary (13 x 19 cm), spiral bound, brown, 1952, writer was 22 years old. Entries about weather, daily activities, church attendance, social calls (visits) after church, Hilda Caley Nobel and Abba/Aunt Belle (Maybelle Caley Barker), smog, health issues, social activities such as teas, women's club luncheons, vacation to Long Beach, California (October), writes about seeing Richard Nixon and family (31 October).","Scope and Contents Diary (15 x 21 cm), red, 1963 writer was 34/35 years old. Daily entries with breaks of over week after late April: on dating ex-boyfriends: Sam Brown, Frank Camden, Bill, Ward ?, John Snapp (2 months, and Stanley Kelley (2 dates/2 weeks) of which she notes the dates she met and broke up and why, very emotional and intense, relations with mother, holiday and birthday celebrations with gifts, worried about weight, health of mother (Cancer?), she is constantly ill, church attendance and Sunday school teaching, conflict with Mother (attributes it multiple times to cancer returning), dislike of \"Abba\"(Maybelle Caley Barker) (cheap, inconsiderate), multiple day entries on John F. Kennedy's assassination and funeral. Diary (13 x 19.5 cm), green, 1964, writer was 35/36 years old. Almost daily entries include mother's health (76 yrs old), concerns about weight, personal health, flu, weather observations, church attendance, division of chores within the household,and driving test (passed written driving test at 34 yrs old but cancelled driving lessons after a number of lessons because she was too nervous, but started back up). Meets future husband (Ray) in September. No entries for three weeks until they are dating in late October then followed by daily very personal entries on status of courtship for a 35 year old never married, virgin female and a recovering, male alcoholic with an ex-wife and three children.","Diary (14 x 19.5 cm), red, 1966, writer was 37/38 years old: sporadic entries. January 1-24, 1966 are torn out. Ray Sondergard and Nadine Noble Caley went to Las Vegas and got married on 26 January 1966, but did not inform anyone. She continues to live at home, thinks she may be pregnant, still has dates with Ray for drives, and longs for house together. Last entry April 10, 1966.","Letters to Nadine Noble Sondergard from friend Evelyn Bauer reference the loss of Bauer's baby (miscarriage), setting up house, in-law troubles; family updates from relatives.","Artifacts were transferred upon receipt to the Manuscripts Artifact Collection (Mss. 1.03): Green leather clutch with metal letters MC (2012.192.01) and pair of nylon white elbow length gloves (2012.192.02ab)","Before reproducing or quoting from any materials, in whole or in part, permission must be obtained from the Special Collections Research Center, and the holder of the copyright, if not Swem Library.","Special Collections Research Center","Caley family","Hilda Caley Noble, 1917-1968","Mary Davidson Caley, 1895-1962","Maybelle Caley Barker, 1897-1968","Nadine Noble Sondergard (1952-1967), 1952-1967","English"],"unitid_tesim":["Mss. 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Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, such as the Virginia Public Records Act (Code of Virginia. § 42.1-76-91); and the Virginia Freedom of Information Act (Code of Virginia § 2.2-3705.5). Confidential material may include, but is not limited to, educational, medical, and personnel records. If sensitive material is found in this collection, please contact a staff member immediately. The disclosure of personally identifiable information pertaining to a living individual may have legal consequences for which the College of William and Mary assumes no responsibility.\u003c/p\u003e"],"accessrestrict_heading_ssm":["Conditions Governing Access:"],"accessrestrict_tesim":["Collection is open to all researchers. Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, such as the Virginia Public Records Act (Code of Virginia. § 42.1-76-91); and the Virginia Freedom of Information Act (Code of Virginia § 2.2-3705.5). Confidential material may include, but is not limited to, educational, medical, and personnel records. If sensitive material is found in this collection, please contact a staff member immediately. The disclosure of personally identifiable information pertaining to a living individual may have legal consequences for which the College of William and Mary assumes no responsibility."],"arrangement_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThis collection is arranged into four series: Series 1: Mary Davidson Caley, 1895-1962; Series 2: Maybelle Caley Barker, 1897-1969; Series 3: Hilda Caley Noble, 1917-1968; Series 4: Nadine Noble Sondergard, 1957-1967.\u003c/p\u003e"],"arrangement_heading_ssm":["Arrangement of Materials:"],"arrangement_tesim":["This collection is arranged into four series: Series 1: Mary Davidson Caley, 1895-1962; Series 2: Maybelle Caley Barker, 1897-1969; Series 3: Hilda Caley Noble, 1917-1968; Series 4: Nadine Noble Sondergard, 1957-1967."],"bioghist_html_tesm":["\u003cbioghist altrender=\"Family History\" encodinganalog=\"545$a\"\u003e  Mary Davidson Caley, (1861-1962) married (1887) William Paul Caley (1859-1943) and moved from Ohio to South Pasadena, California with her two daughters, Maybelle Caley Barker (1889-1967) and Hilda Caley Noble (1888 - 1972). Mary Davidson Caley was told to move to California from Ohio due to her health. The Caley's eventually settled in Sierra Madre in 1895 where William was the first Street Superintendent and Tax Collector. Maybelle Caley Barker married former Army Captain Clyde (Clinton) Barker (1889-1936) in 1918. Maybelle and Clinton did not have any children. When Clinton died (1936), Maybelle never remarried and remained in Sierra Madre. Hilda Caley Noble (1888 - 1972) married John Noble and their daughter Nadine Noble Sondergard (1928- 2008) married (1965) Ray Sondergard (1920-1998).\n\n \u003c/bioghist\u003e","\u003cbioghist altrender=\"Administrative History\" encodinganalog=\"545$b\"\u003e \u003chead\u003eAdministrative History:\u003c/head\u003e Mary Davidson Caley, (1861-1962) married (1887) William Paul Caley (1859-1943) and moved from Ohio to South Pasadena, California with her two daughters, Maybelle Caley Barker (1889-1967) and Hilda Caley Noble (1888 - 1972).  Mary Davidson Caley was told to move to California from Ohio due to her health.  The Caley's eventually settled in Sierra Madre in 1895 where William was the first Street Superintendent and Tax Collector. Maybelle Caley Barker married former Army Captain Clyde (Clinton) Barker (1889-1936) in 1918.  Maybelle and Clinton did not have any children. When Clinton died (1936), Maybelle never remarried and remained in Sierra Madre. Hilda Caley Noble (1888 - 1972) married John Noble and their daughter Nadine Noble Sondergard (1928- 2008) married (1965) Ray Sondergard (1920-1998).\n\n \u003c/bioghist\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMary Davidson Caley, (1861-1962) married (1887) William Paul Caley (1859-1943) and moved from Ohio to South Pasadena, California with her two daughters, Maybelle Caley Barker (1889-1967) and Hilda Caley Noble (1888 - 1972). Mary Davidson Caley was told to move to California from Ohio due to her health. The Caley's eventually settled in Sierra Madre in 1895 where William was the first Street Superintendent and Tax Collector. Maybelle Caley Barker married former Army Captain Clyde (Clinton) Barker (1889-1936) in 1918. Maybelle and Clinton did not have any children. When Clinton died (1936), Maybelle never remarried and remained in Sierra Madre. Hilda Caley Noble (1888 - 1972) married John Noble and their daughter Nadine Noble Sondergard (1928- 2008) married (1965) Ray Sondergard (1920-1998).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMary Davidson Caley, (1861-1962) married (1887) William Paul Caley (1859-1943) and moved from Ohio to South Pasadena, California with her two daughters, Maybelle Caley Barker (1889-1967) and Hilda Caley Noble (1888 - 1972).  Mary Davidson Caley was told to move to California from Ohio due to her health.  The Caley's eventually settled in Sierra Madre in 1895 where William was the first Street Superintendent and Tax Collector. Maybelle Caley Barker married former Army Captain Clyde (Clinton) Barker (1889-1936) in 1918.  Maybelle and Clinton did not have any children. When Clinton died (1936), Maybelle never remarried and remained in Sierra Madre. 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Hilda Caley Noble (1888 - 1972) married John Noble and their daughter Nadine Noble Sondergard (1928- 2008) married (1965) Ray Sondergard (1920-1998).\n\n ","Administrative History:  Mary Davidson Caley, (1861-1962) married (1887) William Paul Caley (1859-1943) and moved from Ohio to South Pasadena, California with her two daughters, Maybelle Caley Barker (1889-1967) and Hilda Caley Noble (1888 - 1972).  Mary Davidson Caley was told to move to California from Ohio due to her health.  The Caley's eventually settled in Sierra Madre in 1895 where William was the first Street Superintendent and Tax Collector. Maybelle Caley Barker married former Army Captain Clyde (Clinton) Barker (1889-1936) in 1918.  Maybelle and Clinton did not have any children. When Clinton died (1936), Maybelle never remarried and remained in Sierra Madre. Hilda Caley Noble (1888 - 1972) married John Noble and their daughter Nadine Noble Sondergard (1928- 2008) married (1965) Ray Sondergard (1920-1998).\n\n ","Mary Davidson Caley, (1861-1962) married (1887) William Paul Caley (1859-1943) and moved from Ohio to South Pasadena, California with her two daughters, Maybelle Caley Barker (1889-1967) and Hilda Caley Noble (1888 - 1972). Mary Davidson Caley was told to move to California from Ohio due to her health. The Caley's eventually settled in Sierra Madre in 1895 where William was the first Street Superintendent and Tax Collector. Maybelle Caley Barker married former Army Captain Clyde (Clinton) Barker (1889-1936) in 1918. Maybelle and Clinton did not have any children. When Clinton died (1936), Maybelle never remarried and remained in Sierra Madre. Hilda Caley Noble (1888 - 1972) married John Noble and their daughter Nadine Noble Sondergard (1928- 2008) married (1965) Ray Sondergard (1920-1998).","Mary Davidson Caley, (1861-1962) married (1887) William Paul Caley (1859-1943) and moved from Ohio to South Pasadena, California with her two daughters, Maybelle Caley Barker (1889-1967) and Hilda Caley Noble (1888 - 1972).  Mary Davidson Caley was told to move to California from Ohio due to her health.  The Caley's eventually settled in Sierra Madre in 1895 where William was the first Street Superintendent and Tax Collector. Maybelle Caley Barker married former Army Captain Clyde (Clinton) Barker (1889-1936) in 1918.  Maybelle and Clinton did not have any children. When Clinton died (1936), Maybelle never remarried and remained in Sierra Madre. Hilda Caley Noble (1888 - 1972) married John Noble and their daughter Nadine Noble Sondergard (1928- 2008) married (1965) Ray Sondergard (1920-1998)."],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eCaley Family Papers, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, at the College of William and Mary.\u003c/p\u003e"],"prefercite_tesim":["Caley Family Papers, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, at the College of William and Mary."],"relatedmaterial_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eArtifacts were transferred upon receipt to the Manuscripts Artifact Collection (Mss. 1.03): Green leather clutch with metal letters MC (2012.192.01) and pair of nylon white elbow length gloves (2012.192.02ab).\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Information about related materials is available at http://guides.swem.wm.edu/scrc-women\u003c/p\u003e"],"relatedmaterial_heading_ssm":["Related Materials:"],"relatedmaterial_tesim":["Artifacts were transferred upon receipt to the Manuscripts Artifact Collection (Mss. 1.03): Green leather clutch with metal letters MC (2012.192.01) and pair of nylon white elbow length gloves (2012.192.02ab)."," Information about related materials is available at http://guides.swem.wm.edu/scrc-women"],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe collection is mostly personal correspondence and diaries, chiefly 1895-1968, collected and written by Mary Davidson Caley, her two daughters, Maybelle Caley Barker and Hilda Caley Noble, and Hilda's daughter, Nadine Noble Sondergard. The Caley's were white middle class women who lived in Sierra Madre, California for the majority of their lives.  The personal letters and diaries of three generations of women contain topics related to the household operations, Spanish Flu 1918, farm operations in Ohio 1918, family finances, health concerns, local and national issues (Kennedy Assassination (1963), Watts Riots (1965) as well as social and religious activities.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Maybelle's, Hilda's and Nadine's diary entries and letters on Nadine and Ray Sondergard's courtship and early years together reflect the different perspectives of the women and their family interpersonal relationships and dynamics.  Nadine married late in life for the time (36 years old) and it was her husband Ray's (45 years old) second marriage. He had an uneven employment history. They had at least one son. The Caley women lived and traveled up and down the US northwest coast from California to Oregon and frequently visited Ohio for extended periods. The women's diaries span from 1951-1966 while the letters are from 1895-1968.  Mary Davidson Caley and Maybelle Caley Barker have a few individual diaries and notebooks from earlier years. Correspondence from over 80 friends and relatives of the Caley's addressed to the women is included as well as 87 photographs of family, friends and landscapes.  The correspondence is filed and organized by receipent rather than sender.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence included in the series was recieved by Mary Davidson Caley and William P. Caley. Correspondence is between Mary Davidson Caley, her two daughters Hilda Caley Noble and Maybelle Caley Barker and numerous friends along with several photographs of family, friends and landscapes scenes.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters about health issues, Christmas gifts in 1895, and fashions between family and friends.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePredominantly letters from brother-in-law, J.C. Caley concerning health of the family, business dealings, and letter from Maybelle Caley Barker on ship to Washington.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters between family and friends about health issues, costs of groceries, meals and dining, fashions, weather, work stories, and updates on status of old friends (sick or deceased) in Ohio. Letter about automobile ride that took three hours for 44 miles in Ohio (1917). Numerous letters from Maybelle Caley Barker to Mary Davidson Caley from trip to Ohio (1917).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters about health issues, costs of groceries, meals and dining, women's fashions, women's employment opportunties, weather, work stories, and updates on status of old friends (sick or deceased) from Maybelle Caley Barker and Hilda Caley Noble. Numerous letters from Hilda Caley Noble to Mary Davidson Caley during trip to Painesville, Ohio (1918).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWeekly letters from Maybelle Caley Barker and Hilda Caley Noble from Ohio about health issues (deaths from Spanish Flu outbreak), shopping, cost of groceries, meals and dining, fashion, weather, farm operations in Ohio, World War I Armistice Celebrations, women's employment, updates on status of old friends (sick or deceased), working with Red Cross, anti-Catholic feelings.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters to Mary Davidson Caley and William Paul Caley from Maybelle Caley Barker, Hilda Caley Noble and friends in Ohio about health issues, shopping, costs of groceries, meals and dining, fashions, weather, dating, finances, updates on status of family and friends (sick or deceased), and news of relative returning from World War I and his experience in the Argonne Forest.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters to Mary Davidson Caley and William Paul Caley from Maybelle Caley Barker, Hilda Caley Noble and friends in Ohio about health issues, farm operations (pigs dying of Cholera), housekeeping with new washing machine, shopping, costs of groceries, meals and dining, fashions, weather, dating, finances, updates on status of family and friends (sick or deceased), and Christmas shopping and presents\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters to Mary Davidson Caley and William Paul Caley from Maybelle Caley Barker, Hilda Caley Noble and friends in Ohio about health issues (Influenza Flu), farm operations (selling chickens and ducks), housekeeping, women employment, shopping, costs of groceries, meals and dining, fashions, weather, dating, finances, updates on status of family and friends, and going out for entertainment (movies and shows). Comments on Baptists, Methodists, Christian Scientists, and Jews interspersed throughout letters in sometimes less than flattering context.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters to Mary Davidson Caley and William Paul Caley from Maybelle Caley Barker, Hilda Caley Noble and friends in Ohio about health issues, farm operations housekeeping, women's employment, shopping, cost of groceries, meals and dining, fashions, weather, dating, finances, and updates on status of family and friends.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters to Mary Davidson Caley from Maybelle Caley Barker, Hilda Caley Noble and friends in Ohio about health issues, women's employment, shopping, costs of groceries, fashions, weather, social gossip, finances, and updates on status of family and friends. Letter from friend on trip through New Orleans, Biloxi, Panama Canal Zone and stops in Central America.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters to Mary Davidson Caley from Hilda Caley Noble in Mantua, Ohio and friends about health issues, children (Nadine Noble Sondergard), cost of groceries, weather, social gossip, finances, and updates on status of family and friends. Impact of Great Depression.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters to Mary Davidson Caley from Hilda Caley Noble in Mantua, Ohio and friends about health issues, children (Nadine Noble Sondergard), relations with in-laws, costs of groceries, weather, social gossip, finances, and updates on status of family and friends.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters to Mary Davidson Caley from family, cousins and friends about health issues, children, weather, social gossip, and updates on status of family and friends. Effects of Great Depression.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters to Mary Davidson Caley from Maybelle Caley Barker, Hilda Caley Noble, family, cousins and friends about health issues, children, weather, social gossip, updates on status of family and friends, death of family members, and social activities.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters to Mary Davidson Caley from Maybelle Caley Barker, Hilda Caley Noble family, cousins and friends about health issues, children, weather, social gossip, updates on status of family and friends, death of family members, and social activities. Long letter from friend about attendance at Missionary Conference in Camp Webster, Kansas in 1954 that reveals missionary activities in Sierra Leone Africa and New Mexico.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eUndated and loose pages of letters to Mary Davidson Caley from Maybelle Caley Barker, Hilda Caley Noble family, cousins and friends about health issues, children, weather, comments on World War I (dislike of Germans and reactions within social circles), social gossip, updates on status of family and friends, death of family members, and social activities.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePrinted materials: funeral announcements, newspaper articles on Senator Everett Colby (New Jersey), Republican primaries, crime, color prints pages from books, Practical Astrology magazine Gemini (June 1929), Isle of Man picture Calendar (1959), Magazine of World Manx Association, (June 1927), Oregon Schedule of Events (1967), Bonneville Dam brochure (1965).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePhotographs in family portrait settings including Mary Caley Davidson, William Paul Caley, Hilda Caley Noble, Maybelle Caley Barker, Nadine Noble Sondergard, Swans, Mame Veber.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTwo small diaries (6 cm x 14 cm)from American Bridge Company of New York. They belonged to Irving Dickinson (unknown relation to Caley) contain regular entries on weather observations, receipt of letters from family, and health issues.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSmall (6 x 10 cm) address book (Teepee and Painesville, Ohio cover), contains family birthdays and Christmas gifts from 1947-1948; small black diary (5 x 7.5 cm) 1948 with sporadic entry for January 1948 on social events and dinning out; small notebook(8 x 13 cm) (1922) containing entries on numerous flowers and vegetable planting, blooming and harvesting dates; small red notebook (8.5 x 10 cm) for Christmas gifts (1906); small (8 x 15 cm) red water damaged diary (1911/1912) from Maybelle Caley Barker containing short and long hand script of diary entries by day but not date.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePhotographs of people including: Dean Snyder,William Caley, John Vanderburg, M.L. Snedden, Elizabeth Turner, Warren Eugene Pennell (1929), Ruth Evely Pennell (1929), Mary Graham, Alberta and Frank Sheets, Stella Norris (1943), Frances Zigler (1943), Margie Meachum (1937), Diana Meachum (1937), Trent Meachum (1937), women in bathing suits (1930/1940/1950?); unknown people and scenery from the following locations: New York Harbor with Statute of Liberty (early 20th Century), Ford Model A, Palm Springs motel (1950s), Sutter Mill, California (1950s).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSpreadsheet of names generated from notes attached to letters when collection was processed along with some web research used in compiling the biographical information.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence included in the series was recieved by Maybelle Caley Barker. Correspondence is between Maybelle Caley Barker, her sister Hilda Caley Noble, her neice Nadine Noble Sondergard, and numerous friends. Nine diaries from the 1950s and 1960s along with one diary from 1915 are in the series. Several photographs of Maybelle Caley Barker with family and friends are also included.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters to Maybelle Caley Barker from Hilda Caley Noble, Nadine Noble Sondergard, family, cousins and friends about health issues, children, weather, social gossip, updates on status of family and friends, death of family members, social activities. Correspondence from Church activities, Prohibition activities (1914),World War II Home front activities in California (1942).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters to Maybelle Caley Barker from Hilda Caley Noble, Nadine Noble Sondergard, family, cousins and friends about health issues, mental illness, divorce, alcoholism, children, weather, social gossip, updates on status of family and friends, death of family members, and social activities. Letters from friend who moved back to Guadalajara, Mexico (1955 \u0026amp; 1957).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters to Maybelle Caley Barker from Hilda Caley Noble, family, cousins and friends about health issues, children, weather, social gossip, updates on status of family and friends, and death of family members. Trailer park living in 1963-1965, race relations, racism discussions from friends, and reactions to Marines going to Vietnam (1965).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters to Maybelle Caley Barker from Hilda Caley Noble and friends about health issues, weather, social gossip, updates on status of family and friends, and social activities. Complicated family relations between Nadine and Ray, race riots (1966), and crime.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters to Maybelle Caley Barker from friends about health issues, weather, social gossip, updates on status of family and friends, and social activities. Opposition to President Johnson and war in Vietnam.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters to Maybelle Caley Barker from friends about health issues, updates on status of family and friends, and social activities.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSchool notebook and diary (19 x 24 cm) brown, 1906-1907, writer was 17/18 years old. School notebook with short stories, school reports on Washington Irving, George Washington, exams for first part of book and diary entries interspersed through second part of the notebook along with loose leaf pages about daily activities, weather observations, homework, baking and cooking, and teachers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Diary (13.5 x 20 cm), red brick, 1915, (1920, 1921), partial and full page daily entries, on her activities in Sierra Madre, California; playing tennis, dancing lessons, Courtship with Harry Barker (future husband), sparse mention of local, national or world events(\"Lusitania sunk by Germans probably means war\"(8 May). Subjects also include holiday and birthday celebrations with gifts, weather observations, daily household operations, correspondence from family and friends, health issues, lunches and social activities, deaths of friends and family, and local travel. Appears as though diary may have been double used, edited or updated in 1916-1921; entries in pencil. Uses shorthand for some entries in diary for sensitive items or practicing,and some French language entries. No entries 18 July - 17 August, 20 AUG - 3 September, 6-21 November. Updates from 1920 and 1921 include family and friends updates on marriage and death. Comments written after reading in 1937 and 1959. Diary (14 x 19.5 cm) green, 1959, writer was 70 years old, partial and full page daily entries (except for vacation during September) on her activities; sparse mention of local, national or world events (disliked raising taxes-voted against school tax, local crimes, bus strike, meat-cutters strikes); weather observations, daily household operations, correspondence from family and friends, health issues of self and Nadine Noble Sondergard (\"invalid of the family\" (31 March), historical society business and tours, lunches and social activities, financial status, pets (dog Moo-Moo), holiday and birthday celebrations with gifts, deaths of friends and family, local travel, and contains genealogical information on last two pages.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiary (13.5 x 19.5 cm), black, 1951, writer was 62 years old, mainly partial and a few full page daily entries on her activities; sparse to no mention of local, national or world events. Subjects include holiday and birthday celebrations with gifts, weather observations, daily household operations, cooking and meals, correspondence from family and friends, lunches and social activities, financial transactions, deaths of friends and family, local travel and vacations. Diary (13.5 x 19.5 cm), red brick, 1952, writer was 63 years old, mainly partial and a few full page daily entries on her activities; sparse to no mention of local, national or world events; (President Eisenhower Nomination, 11 July, Eisenhower wins in landslide, 4 November. Subjects include holiday and birthday celebrations with gifts, weather observations, church activities, election board activities, daily household operations, cooking and meals, correspondence from family and friends, lunches and social activities, financial transactions (budget and list of bank assets in back of diary), deaths of friends and family, local travel, and vacations.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiary (13.5 x 19.5 cm) green, 1963, writer was 73/74 years old, mainly partial and a few full page daily entries on her activities; sparse to no mention of local, national or world events. President Kennedy's baby died (8-9 August) Billy Graham Revival at Olympic Stadium (20 August), President Kennedy assassination (22-25 November). subjects include holiday and birthday celebrations with gifts; weather observations, daily household operations, cooking and meals, correspondence from family and friends, lunches and social activities, historical society activities, pets (Moo-Moo), health issues (Nadine Noble Sondergard, Hilda Caley Noble), financial transactions, deaths of friends and family, local travel, and vacations. Diary (13.5 x 19.5 cm) brick red, 1964, writer was 74/75 years old, mainly partial and a few full page daily entries on her activities; sparse to no mention of local, national or world events;(Gen. Douglas MacArthur died age 84 \"he was beloved by all\", Voted for Goldwater on Election day (2 June). Subjects include holiday and birthday celebrations with gifts activities; weather observations, daily household operations, cooking and meals, correspondence from family and friends, lunches and social activities (bridge club), historical society activities, senior citizen activities, pets (Moo-Moo), Ray Sondergard and Nadine Noble Sondergard courtship (9 November-30 December), financial transactions, and deaths of friends and family.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiary (13.5 x 19.5 cm), olive green, 1965, writer was 75/76 years old, mainly partial and a few full page daily entries on her activities (week long stretches with no entries due to vacation and illnesses); sparse to no mention of local, national or world events; (Space walk with Ed White 3-7 June, \"Negroes rioting in in LA\", Watts Riots11-15 August. Subjects include holiday and birthday celebrations with gifts, weather observations, daily household operations, cooking and meals, correspondence from family and friends, lunches and social activities (bridge club, playing Canasta), historical society activities, social activities, Liberace concert (9 April), health issues, senior citizen activities, pets (Moo-Moo), church business, Ray Sondergard and Nadine Noble Sondergard courtship, Ray goes back to 1st wife (\"couldn't stand the TV dinners she (Nadine) served him,\" (29 Jul), financial transactions, deaths of friends and family, local travel, and vacations. Diary (13.5 x 19.5 cm), black, 1966, writer was 76/77 years old, mainly partial and a few full page daily entries on her activities (week or longer stretches with no entries due to vacation and increasing bouts of illnesses); sparse to no mention of local, national or world events \"Conditions bad in Vietnam against USA\" (8 April), Riot in Watts (18 May), Reagan won primary (8 June), memories of father (13 June), \"Republican's had big victory\" (8 November). Subjects include holiday and birthday celebrations with gifts, weather observations, daily household operations, cooking and meals, correspondence from family and friends, lunches and social activities (bridge club, playing Canasta), historical society activities, health issues (self, Ray) senior citizen activities, pets (Moo-Moo died,1 October, misses \"so much\"), church business, Ray Sondergard and Nadine Noble Sondergard renewed courtship, Ray quitting jobs, marriage (15 April), Ray ill and can't/won't work (26 August), financial transactions, and deaths of friends and family.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePhotographs in family portrait settings of Maybelle Caley Barker with Marian Shaw, Mattie Spencer, Marian Brant, Gertrude Seaman, (Maybelle as child in 1895).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence included in the series was recieved by Hilda Caley Noble. Correspondence is between her daughter, Nadine Noble Sondergard, her sister, Maybelle Caley Barker, and numerous friends. Ten diaries from the 1950s and 1960s with daily full page entries are in the series. Photographs of Hilda Caley Noble with family and friends are also included.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters to Hilda Caley Noble from Maybelle Caley Barker, Nadine Noble Sondergard and friends about health issues, weather, updates on status of family and friends, and social activities. Title for House in Sierra Madre, California.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters to Hilda Caley Noble from Maybelle Caley Barker and friends about health issues, updates on status of family and friends, social activities, taxes, crime, pets, and cooking.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters to Hilda Caley Noble from Nadine Noble Sondergard, Maybelle Caley Barker, and Ray Sondergard on Nadine's Honeymoon and establishing new household, updates on status of family and friends, social activities, and Ray Sondergard's employment.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters to Hilda Caley Noble from Nadine Noble Sondergard and Ray Sondergard on establishing new household, cooking, social activities and Ray Sondergard's employment, illness, and firing.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters to Hilda Caley Noble from Nadine Noble Sondergard on establishing new household, cooking, social activities, Ray Sondergard's new employment, illness and moving to new house.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters to Hilda Caley Noble from Nadine Noble Sondergard on running household, cooking, social activities, travels, family health issues and sympathy cards from friends on Maybelle Caley Barker.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters to Hilda Caley Noble from Nadine Noble Sondergard on running household, cooking, social activities, travels, family health issues and sympathy cards from friends on Maybelle Caley Barker's death and Nadine's pregnancy.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters to Hilda Caley Noble from Nadine Noble Sondergard on running household, child rearing, cooking, social activities, travels, family health issues (cancer death of mother-in-law), Ray Sondergard looking for employment, and friends on health issues, weather, social gossip, and updates on status of family and friends.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters to Hilda Caley Noble from Nadine Noble Sondergard child health issues, cooking, social activities, travels, family health issues, and concern about weight gain. Ray Sondergard going on welfare due to illness, friends on health issues, weather, social gossip, and updates on status of family and friends.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiary (13.5 x 19.5), red brick, 1954, writer was 65/66 years old, full page daily entries on her activities along with notes on Maybelle Caley Barkers and Nadine Noble Sondergard activities with little to no recording of how author felt about them; no mention of local, national or world events except 1954 World Series between Cleveland Indians and New York Giants, some mention of television shows. Subjects also include holiday and birthday celebrations with gifts, weather observations, daily household operations, correspondence and telephone calls from family and friends, health issues of self and mother (Mary Davidson Caley who lives with them), church attendance, shopping, cooking, division of chores within the household, lunches and social activities, financial status, other families' weddings, and holiday and birthday celebrations with gifts. Hilda Caley Noble liked to doodle in the margins.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiary (13.5 x 19.5 cm), red, 1956, writer was 67/68 years old, full page daily entries on her activities along with notes on Maybelle Caley Barkers and Nadine Noble Sondergard activities with little to no recording of how author felt about them; sporadic mention of local, national or world events such as earthquakes, train wrecks, fires, H Bomb detonation (17 May), bomb explosion at bus station (7 June), President Eisenhower heart attack (8-9, 11 Jun), ship collision (26 July); Canasta parties, regular mention of television shows ($64,000 Question). Subjects include holiday and birthday celebrations with gifts, weather observations, daily household operations, correspondence and telephone calls from family and friends, health issues of self and mother (Mary Davidson Caley who lives with them), church attendance, Nadine Noble Sondergard and bible school, shopping, cooking, supper menus, division of chores within the household, lunches and social activities, financial status, pets (birds) other families' weddings, holiday and birthday celebrations with gifts, deaths of friends and family, and local travel. Hilda Caley Noble liked to doodle on the margins and use different color inks including green, purple, blue, red, black. Diary (13.5 x 19.5 cm), brick red, 1957, writer was 68/69 years old, full page daily entries on her activities along with notes on Maybelle Caley Barkers and Nadine Noble Sondergard activities with little to no recording of how author felt about them; sporadic mention of local, national or world events (President Eisenhower inauguration (21 January), Ku Klux Klan cross burning (9 February), President Eisenhower's stroke (26-27 November). Subjects also include holiday and birthday celebrations with gifts, weather observations, daily household operations, regular mention of television shows, correspondence and telephone calls from family and friends, health issues of self and Nadine Noble Sondergard, church attendance, Nadine Noble Sondergard and bible school, shopping at the Safeway grocery store, cooking, supper menus, division of chores within the household, lunches and social activities, financial status, pets, other families weddings, historical society business and tours, deaths of friends and family, and local travel. Hilda Caley Noble liked to doodle in the margins and used different color inks including green, purple, blue, red, black.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiary (9.5 x 13.5 cm), maroon, 1958, writer was 69/70 years old, full page daily entries on her activities along with notes on Maybelle Caley Barker's and Nadine Noble Sondergard's activities with little to no recording of how author felt about them; sparse mention of local, national or world events, regular mention of television shows. Subjects also include holiday and birthday celebrations with gifts activities; weather observations, daily household operations, correspondence from family and friends, health issues of self and Nadine Noble Sondergard, church attendance, Nadine Noble Sondergard and bible school, shopping at the Safeway grocery store, cooking, supper menus, division of chores within the household, lunches and social activities, financial status, pets (birds \u0026amp; cat), other families' weddings, holiday and birthday celebrations with gifts, deaths of friends and family, and local travel. Hilda Caley Noble liked to doodle in the margins.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiary (13.5 x 19.5 cm), red, 1960, writer was 71/72 Years old, full page daily entries on her activities along with notes on Maybelle Caley Barker's and Nadine Noble Sondergard's activities with little to no recording of how author felt about them; sparse mention of local, national or world events: President Eisenhower coming to Los Angeles, California (27 January), Eisenhower's South American Trip (22 February), and earthquakes. Subjects also include holiday and birthday celebrations with gifts activities; weather observations, daily household operations, correspondence from family and friends, health issues of self (1st \u0026amp; 2nd surgical operations 21 \u0026amp; 29 Sepember ) writes about \"very important election between Mr. Kennedy \u0026amp; Mr. Nixon for President\" and Maybelle's work with precinct and vote tallies (8 November), mother (Mary Davidson Caley) and Nadine Noble Sondergard (colitis), church attendance, cooking, supper menus, division of chores within the household, lunches and social activities, financial transactions, pets (dog-Moo-Moo), and deaths of friends and family. Diary (13.5 x 19.5 cm), olive green, 1962, writer was 73/74 years old, full page daily entries on her activities along with notes on Maybelle Caley Barker's and Nadine Noble Sondergard's activities with little to no recording of how author felt about them; sparse mention of local, national or world events: (Cuban Missile Crisis (22 October-02 November) grocery stores empty, stocking up on food, war at any time, ships and blockade, dismantling bases in Cuba ). Subjects also include mother's death (Mary Davidson Caley) (23 January), church attendance, cooking, supper menus, division of chores within the household, lunches and social activities, financial transactions, pets (dog Moo-Moo), holiday and birthday celebrations with gifts, and deaths of friends and family.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Diary (13.5 x 19.5 cm), red, 1963, writer was 74/75 Years old, full page daily entries on her activities along with notes on Maybelle Caley Barkers and Nadine Noble Sondergard activities with little to no recording of how author felt about them; sparse mention of local, national or world events (President Kennedy leaving for Europe (22 June), \"Negroes picketing in Los Angeles\", Pope Paul VI (24 June), Forest fires and Earthquakes, President Kennedy baby death (9-10 August 13), Billy Graham crusade (20 August), President Kennedy assassination and President Johnson new president (22-25 November). Subjects also include church attendance, cooking, supper menus, division of chores within the household, lunches and social activities (playing canasta, Senior Citizen meetings), financial transactions, budgets, health issues of Nadine Noble Sondergard and herself (fall), pets (dog Moo-Moo), holiday and birthday celebrations with gifts, and deaths of friends and family, watching TV on colored set, notes on TV actors death, TV Shows: Ed Sullivan, Lawrence Welk, Hazel, Lassie, Petticoat Junction, and TV being broke is problem (January)(June). Diary (13.5 x 19.5 cm), white,1964, writer was 75/76 years old, full page daily entries on her activities along with notes on Maybelle Caley Barkers and Nadine Noble Sondergard activities with little to no recording of how author felt about them; sparse mention of local, national or world events (Alaska earthquake (27 March), bus strike (June), Mexico City earthquake (6 July), forest fire (24 September). Entires also include church attendance, supper menus, lunches, and social activities. (playing Canasta, senior citizen meetings, Historical Association, Disneyland visit (7 October), 1st mention of Ray Sondergard (7 October), vacation in Long Beach, California (October), Ray and Nadine's courtship, Ray proposed to Nadine (21 November), financial transactions, budgets, health issues of Nadine Noble Sondergard, pets (dog Moo-Moo), holiday and birthday celebrations with gifts, weather observations, and deaths of friends and family. TV shows include Petticoat Junction, Beverly Hillbillies, Hazel, Lawrence Welk, Republican convention with Goldwater (13-17 July), Dick Van Dyke, Lassie, Candid Camera, Election coverage (3 November),\"Johnson won by a landside\".\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Diary (13.5 x 19.5 cm), red, 1965, writer was 76/77 years old, full page daily entries on her activities along with notes on Maybelle Caley Barkers, Nadine Noble Sondergard and Ray Sondergard activities with little recording of how author felt about them except for Ray Sondergard; sparse mention of local, national or world events. Winston Churchill funeral (30 January), earthquake in Seattle (29 April), Ray and Nadine's courtship, on and off engagement, Hilda's dislike of Ray (\"I am afraid he will never amount to anything as he will not work only a short time then gives up\" )(10 June), Ray goes back to first wife (28 July). Ray leaves wife and back in Long Beach and contacts Nadine (6 December), Sierra Madre earthquake (16 July), riot in Los Angeles with \"colored people in Watts\", National Guard sent in, curfew in Los Angeles, riot in Pasadena, CA (12-17 August), blackout in northeastern US and Canada (9 November). Also includes holiday and birthday celebrations with gifts, playing Canasta, pets (dog Moo-Moo), weather observations, and deaths of friends and family and TV shows include Lawrence Welk, Petticoat Junction, Ed Sullivan. Diary (13.5 x 19.5 cm), black, 1966, writer was 77/78 years old, full page daily entries on her activities along with notes on Maybelle Caley Barkers, Nadine Noble Sondergard and Ray Sondergard activities with little recording of how author felt about them. Subjects include Ray and Nadine's courtship ( Ray and Nadine date again (21 January), secretly married in Las Vegas (27 January) but Hilda didn't \"know about it until after Easter\" (11 April), honeymoon trip to Portland, Oregon (15-26 April), Nadine and Ray move to Salem, Ray losing jobs, sparse mention of local, national or world events, holiday and birthday celebrations with gifts, playing Canasta, pets (dog Moo-Moo), health issues (Ray Sondergard, Maybelle Caley Barker), weather observations, and deaths of friends and family and TV shows include Lassie, My Favorite Martian, and Ed Sullivan.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePhotographs in family portrait settings of Hilda Caley Noble with Nadine Noble Sondergard and family members.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence included in the series was recieved by Nadine Noble Sondergard. Correspondence is between her mother, Hilda Caley Noble, her aunt, Maybelle Caley Barker, and friends. Four diaries from the 1950s and 1960s are also in the series.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiary (13 x 19 cm), spiral bound, brown, 1952, writer was 22 years old. Entries about weather, daily activities, church attendance, social calls (visits) after church, Hilda Caley Nobel and Abba/Aunt Belle (Maybelle Caley Barker), smog, health issues, social activities such as teas, women's club luncheons, vacation to Long Beach, California (October), writes about seeing Richard Nixon and family (31 October).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Diary (15 x 21 cm), red, 1963 writer was 34/35 years old. Daily entries with breaks of over week after late April: on dating ex-boyfriends: Sam Brown, Frank Camden, Bill, Ward ?, John Snapp (2 months, and Stanley Kelley (2 dates/2 weeks) of which she notes the dates she met and broke up and why, very emotional and intense, relations with mother, holiday and birthday celebrations with gifts, worried about weight, health of mother (Cancer?), she is constantly ill, church attendance and Sunday school teaching, conflict with Mother (attributes it multiple times to cancer returning), dislike of \"Abba\"(Maybelle Caley Barker) (cheap, inconsiderate), multiple day entries on John F. Kennedy's assassination and funeral. Diary (13 x 19.5 cm), green, 1964, writer was 35/36 years old. Almost daily entries include mother's health (76 yrs old), concerns about weight, personal health, flu, weather observations, church attendance, division of chores within the household,and driving test (passed written driving test at 34 yrs old but cancelled driving lessons after a number of lessons because she was too nervous, but started back up). Meets future husband (Ray) in September. No entries for three weeks until they are dating in late October then followed by daily very personal entries on status of courtship for a 35 year old never married, virgin female and a recovering, male alcoholic with an ex-wife and three children.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiary (14 x 19.5 cm), red, 1966, writer was 37/38 years old: sporadic entries. January 1-24, 1966 are torn out. Ray Sondergard and Nadine Noble Caley went to Las Vegas and got married on 26 January 1966, but did not inform anyone. She continues to live at home, thinks she may be pregnant, still has dates with Ray for drives, and longs for house together. Last entry April 10, 1966.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters to Nadine Noble Sondergard from friend Evelyn Bauer reference the loss of Bauer's baby (miscarriage), setting up house, in-law troubles; family updates from relatives.\u003c/p\u003e"],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents"],"scopecontent_tesim":["The collection is mostly personal correspondence and diaries, chiefly 1895-1968, collected and written by Mary Davidson Caley, her two daughters, Maybelle Caley Barker and Hilda Caley Noble, and Hilda's daughter, Nadine Noble Sondergard. The Caley's were white middle class women who lived in Sierra Madre, California for the majority of their lives.  The personal letters and diaries of three generations of women contain topics related to the household operations, Spanish Flu 1918, farm operations in Ohio 1918, family finances, health concerns, local and national issues (Kennedy Assassination (1963), Watts Riots (1965) as well as social and religious activities."," Maybelle's, Hilda's and Nadine's diary entries and letters on Nadine and Ray Sondergard's courtship and early years together reflect the different perspectives of the women and their family interpersonal relationships and dynamics.  Nadine married late in life for the time (36 years old) and it was her husband Ray's (45 years old) second marriage. He had an uneven employment history. They had at least one son. The Caley women lived and traveled up and down the US northwest coast from California to Oregon and frequently visited Ohio for extended periods. The women's diaries span from 1951-1966 while the letters are from 1895-1968.  Mary Davidson Caley and Maybelle Caley Barker have a few individual diaries and notebooks from earlier years. Correspondence from over 80 friends and relatives of the Caley's addressed to the women is included as well as 87 photographs of family, friends and landscapes.  The correspondence is filed and organized by receipent rather than sender.","Correspondence included in the series was recieved by Mary Davidson Caley and William P. Caley. Correspondence is between Mary Davidson Caley, her two daughters Hilda Caley Noble and Maybelle Caley Barker and numerous friends along with several photographs of family, friends and landscapes scenes.","Letters about health issues, Christmas gifts in 1895, and fashions between family and friends.","Predominantly letters from brother-in-law, J.C. Caley concerning health of the family, business dealings, and letter from Maybelle Caley Barker on ship to Washington.","Letters between family and friends about health issues, costs of groceries, meals and dining, fashions, weather, work stories, and updates on status of old friends (sick or deceased) in Ohio. Letter about automobile ride that took three hours for 44 miles in Ohio (1917). Numerous letters from Maybelle Caley Barker to Mary Davidson Caley from trip to Ohio (1917).","Letters about health issues, costs of groceries, meals and dining, women's fashions, women's employment opportunties, weather, work stories, and updates on status of old friends (sick or deceased) from Maybelle Caley Barker and Hilda Caley Noble. Numerous letters from Hilda Caley Noble to Mary Davidson Caley during trip to Painesville, Ohio (1918).","Weekly letters from Maybelle Caley Barker and Hilda Caley Noble from Ohio about health issues (deaths from Spanish Flu outbreak), shopping, cost of groceries, meals and dining, fashion, weather, farm operations in Ohio, World War I Armistice Celebrations, women's employment, updates on status of old friends (sick or deceased), working with Red Cross, anti-Catholic feelings.","Letters to Mary Davidson Caley and William Paul Caley from Maybelle Caley Barker, Hilda Caley Noble and friends in Ohio about health issues, shopping, costs of groceries, meals and dining, fashions, weather, dating, finances, updates on status of family and friends (sick or deceased), and news of relative returning from World War I and his experience in the Argonne Forest.","Letters to Mary Davidson Caley and William Paul Caley from Maybelle Caley Barker, Hilda Caley Noble and friends in Ohio about health issues, farm operations (pigs dying of Cholera), housekeeping with new washing machine, shopping, costs of groceries, meals and dining, fashions, weather, dating, finances, updates on status of family and friends (sick or deceased), and Christmas shopping and presents","Letters to Mary Davidson Caley and William Paul Caley from Maybelle Caley Barker, Hilda Caley Noble and friends in Ohio about health issues (Influenza Flu), farm operations (selling chickens and ducks), housekeeping, women employment, shopping, costs of groceries, meals and dining, fashions, weather, dating, finances, updates on status of family and friends, and going out for entertainment (movies and shows). Comments on Baptists, Methodists, Christian Scientists, and Jews interspersed throughout letters in sometimes less than flattering context.","Letters to Mary Davidson Caley and William Paul Caley from Maybelle Caley Barker, Hilda Caley Noble and friends in Ohio about health issues, farm operations housekeeping, women's employment, shopping, cost of groceries, meals and dining, fashions, weather, dating, finances, and updates on status of family and friends.","Letters to Mary Davidson Caley from Maybelle Caley Barker, Hilda Caley Noble and friends in Ohio about health issues, women's employment, shopping, costs of groceries, fashions, weather, social gossip, finances, and updates on status of family and friends. Letter from friend on trip through New Orleans, Biloxi, Panama Canal Zone and stops in Central America.","Letters to Mary Davidson Caley from Hilda Caley Noble in Mantua, Ohio and friends about health issues, children (Nadine Noble Sondergard), cost of groceries, weather, social gossip, finances, and updates on status of family and friends. Impact of Great Depression.","Letters to Mary Davidson Caley from Hilda Caley Noble in Mantua, Ohio and friends about health issues, children (Nadine Noble Sondergard), relations with in-laws, costs of groceries, weather, social gossip, finances, and updates on status of family and friends.","Letters to Mary Davidson Caley from family, cousins and friends about health issues, children, weather, social gossip, and updates on status of family and friends. Effects of Great Depression.","Letters to Mary Davidson Caley from Maybelle Caley Barker, Hilda Caley Noble, family, cousins and friends about health issues, children, weather, social gossip, updates on status of family and friends, death of family members, and social activities.","Letters to Mary Davidson Caley from Maybelle Caley Barker, Hilda Caley Noble family, cousins and friends about health issues, children, weather, social gossip, updates on status of family and friends, death of family members, and social activities. Long letter from friend about attendance at Missionary Conference in Camp Webster, Kansas in 1954 that reveals missionary activities in Sierra Leone Africa and New Mexico.","Undated and loose pages of letters to Mary Davidson Caley from Maybelle Caley Barker, Hilda Caley Noble family, cousins and friends about health issues, children, weather, comments on World War I (dislike of Germans and reactions within social circles), social gossip, updates on status of family and friends, death of family members, and social activities.","Printed materials: funeral announcements, newspaper articles on Senator Everett Colby (New Jersey), Republican primaries, crime, color prints pages from books, Practical Astrology magazine Gemini (June 1929), Isle of Man picture Calendar (1959), Magazine of World Manx Association, (June 1927), Oregon Schedule of Events (1967), Bonneville Dam brochure (1965).","Photographs in family portrait settings including Mary Caley Davidson, William Paul Caley, Hilda Caley Noble, Maybelle Caley Barker, Nadine Noble Sondergard, Swans, Mame Veber.","Two small diaries (6 cm x 14 cm)from American Bridge Company of New York. They belonged to Irving Dickinson (unknown relation to Caley) contain regular entries on weather observations, receipt of letters from family, and health issues.","Small (6 x 10 cm) address book (Teepee and Painesville, Ohio cover), contains family birthdays and Christmas gifts from 1947-1948; small black diary (5 x 7.5 cm) 1948 with sporadic entry for January 1948 on social events and dinning out; small notebook(8 x 13 cm) (1922) containing entries on numerous flowers and vegetable planting, blooming and harvesting dates; small red notebook (8.5 x 10 cm) for Christmas gifts (1906); small (8 x 15 cm) red water damaged diary (1911/1912) from Maybelle Caley Barker containing short and long hand script of diary entries by day but not date.","Photographs of people including: Dean Snyder,William Caley, John Vanderburg, M.L. Snedden, Elizabeth Turner, Warren Eugene Pennell (1929), Ruth Evely Pennell (1929), Mary Graham, Alberta and Frank Sheets, Stella Norris (1943), Frances Zigler (1943), Margie Meachum (1937), Diana Meachum (1937), Trent Meachum (1937), women in bathing suits (1930/1940/1950?); unknown people and scenery from the following locations: New York Harbor with Statute of Liberty (early 20th Century), Ford Model A, Palm Springs motel (1950s), Sutter Mill, California (1950s).","Spreadsheet of names generated from notes attached to letters when collection was processed along with some web research used in compiling the biographical information.","Correspondence included in the series was recieved by Maybelle Caley Barker. Correspondence is between Maybelle Caley Barker, her sister Hilda Caley Noble, her neice Nadine Noble Sondergard, and numerous friends. Nine diaries from the 1950s and 1960s along with one diary from 1915 are in the series. Several photographs of Maybelle Caley Barker with family and friends are also included.","Letters to Maybelle Caley Barker from Hilda Caley Noble, Nadine Noble Sondergard, family, cousins and friends about health issues, children, weather, social gossip, updates on status of family and friends, death of family members, social activities. Correspondence from Church activities, Prohibition activities (1914),World War II Home front activities in California (1942).","Letters to Maybelle Caley Barker from Hilda Caley Noble, Nadine Noble Sondergard, family, cousins and friends about health issues, mental illness, divorce, alcoholism, children, weather, social gossip, updates on status of family and friends, death of family members, and social activities. Letters from friend who moved back to Guadalajara, Mexico (1955 \u0026 1957).","Letters to Maybelle Caley Barker from Hilda Caley Noble, family, cousins and friends about health issues, children, weather, social gossip, updates on status of family and friends, and death of family members. Trailer park living in 1963-1965, race relations, racism discussions from friends, and reactions to Marines going to Vietnam (1965).","Letters to Maybelle Caley Barker from Hilda Caley Noble and friends about health issues, weather, social gossip, updates on status of family and friends, and social activities. Complicated family relations between Nadine and Ray, race riots (1966), and crime.","Letters to Maybelle Caley Barker from friends about health issues, weather, social gossip, updates on status of family and friends, and social activities. Opposition to President Johnson and war in Vietnam.","Letters to Maybelle Caley Barker from friends about health issues, updates on status of family and friends, and social activities.","School notebook and diary (19 x 24 cm) brown, 1906-1907, writer was 17/18 years old. School notebook with short stories, school reports on Washington Irving, George Washington, exams for first part of book and diary entries interspersed through second part of the notebook along with loose leaf pages about daily activities, weather observations, homework, baking and cooking, and teachers.","Scope and Contents Diary (13.5 x 20 cm), red brick, 1915, (1920, 1921), partial and full page daily entries, on her activities in Sierra Madre, California; playing tennis, dancing lessons, Courtship with Harry Barker (future husband), sparse mention of local, national or world events(\"Lusitania sunk by Germans probably means war\"(8 May). Subjects also include holiday and birthday celebrations with gifts, weather observations, daily household operations, correspondence from family and friends, health issues, lunches and social activities, deaths of friends and family, and local travel. Appears as though diary may have been double used, edited or updated in 1916-1921; entries in pencil. Uses shorthand for some entries in diary for sensitive items or practicing,and some French language entries. No entries 18 July - 17 August, 20 AUG - 3 September, 6-21 November. Updates from 1920 and 1921 include family and friends updates on marriage and death. Comments written after reading in 1937 and 1959. Diary (14 x 19.5 cm) green, 1959, writer was 70 years old, partial and full page daily entries (except for vacation during September) on her activities; sparse mention of local, national or world events (disliked raising taxes-voted against school tax, local crimes, bus strike, meat-cutters strikes); weather observations, daily household operations, correspondence from family and friends, health issues of self and Nadine Noble Sondergard (\"invalid of the family\" (31 March), historical society business and tours, lunches and social activities, financial status, pets (dog Moo-Moo), holiday and birthday celebrations with gifts, deaths of friends and family, local travel, and contains genealogical information on last two pages.","Diary (13.5 x 19.5 cm), black, 1951, writer was 62 years old, mainly partial and a few full page daily entries on her activities; sparse to no mention of local, national or world events. Subjects include holiday and birthday celebrations with gifts, weather observations, daily household operations, cooking and meals, correspondence from family and friends, lunches and social activities, financial transactions, deaths of friends and family, local travel and vacations. Diary (13.5 x 19.5 cm), red brick, 1952, writer was 63 years old, mainly partial and a few full page daily entries on her activities; sparse to no mention of local, national or world events; (President Eisenhower Nomination, 11 July, Eisenhower wins in landslide, 4 November. Subjects include holiday and birthday celebrations with gifts, weather observations, church activities, election board activities, daily household operations, cooking and meals, correspondence from family and friends, lunches and social activities, financial transactions (budget and list of bank assets in back of diary), deaths of friends and family, local travel, and vacations.","Diary (13.5 x 19.5 cm) green, 1963, writer was 73/74 years old, mainly partial and a few full page daily entries on her activities; sparse to no mention of local, national or world events. President Kennedy's baby died (8-9 August) Billy Graham Revival at Olympic Stadium (20 August), President Kennedy assassination (22-25 November). subjects include holiday and birthday celebrations with gifts; weather observations, daily household operations, cooking and meals, correspondence from family and friends, lunches and social activities, historical society activities, pets (Moo-Moo), health issues (Nadine Noble Sondergard, Hilda Caley Noble), financial transactions, deaths of friends and family, local travel, and vacations. Diary (13.5 x 19.5 cm) brick red, 1964, writer was 74/75 years old, mainly partial and a few full page daily entries on her activities; sparse to no mention of local, national or world events;(Gen. Douglas MacArthur died age 84 \"he was beloved by all\", Voted for Goldwater on Election day (2 June). Subjects include holiday and birthday celebrations with gifts activities; weather observations, daily household operations, cooking and meals, correspondence from family and friends, lunches and social activities (bridge club), historical society activities, senior citizen activities, pets (Moo-Moo), Ray Sondergard and Nadine Noble Sondergard courtship (9 November-30 December), financial transactions, and deaths of friends and family.","Diary (13.5 x 19.5 cm), olive green, 1965, writer was 75/76 years old, mainly partial and a few full page daily entries on her activities (week long stretches with no entries due to vacation and illnesses); sparse to no mention of local, national or world events; (Space walk with Ed White 3-7 June, \"Negroes rioting in in LA\", Watts Riots11-15 August. Subjects include holiday and birthday celebrations with gifts, weather observations, daily household operations, cooking and meals, correspondence from family and friends, lunches and social activities (bridge club, playing Canasta), historical society activities, social activities, Liberace concert (9 April), health issues, senior citizen activities, pets (Moo-Moo), church business, Ray Sondergard and Nadine Noble Sondergard courtship, Ray goes back to 1st wife (\"couldn't stand the TV dinners she (Nadine) served him,\" (29 Jul), financial transactions, deaths of friends and family, local travel, and vacations. Diary (13.5 x 19.5 cm), black, 1966, writer was 76/77 years old, mainly partial and a few full page daily entries on her activities (week or longer stretches with no entries due to vacation and increasing bouts of illnesses); sparse to no mention of local, national or world events \"Conditions bad in Vietnam against USA\" (8 April), Riot in Watts (18 May), Reagan won primary (8 June), memories of father (13 June), \"Republican's had big victory\" (8 November). Subjects include holiday and birthday celebrations with gifts, weather observations, daily household operations, cooking and meals, correspondence from family and friends, lunches and social activities (bridge club, playing Canasta), historical society activities, health issues (self, Ray) senior citizen activities, pets (Moo-Moo died,1 October, misses \"so much\"), church business, Ray Sondergard and Nadine Noble Sondergard renewed courtship, Ray quitting jobs, marriage (15 April), Ray ill and can't/won't work (26 August), financial transactions, and deaths of friends and family.","Photographs in family portrait settings of Maybelle Caley Barker with Marian Shaw, Mattie Spencer, Marian Brant, Gertrude Seaman, (Maybelle as child in 1895).","Correspondence included in the series was recieved by Hilda Caley Noble. Correspondence is between her daughter, Nadine Noble Sondergard, her sister, Maybelle Caley Barker, and numerous friends. Ten diaries from the 1950s and 1960s with daily full page entries are in the series. Photographs of Hilda Caley Noble with family and friends are also included.","Letters to Hilda Caley Noble from Maybelle Caley Barker, Nadine Noble Sondergard and friends about health issues, weather, updates on status of family and friends, and social activities. Title for House in Sierra Madre, California.","Letters to Hilda Caley Noble from Maybelle Caley Barker and friends about health issues, updates on status of family and friends, social activities, taxes, crime, pets, and cooking.","Letters to Hilda Caley Noble from Nadine Noble Sondergard, Maybelle Caley Barker, and Ray Sondergard on Nadine's Honeymoon and establishing new household, updates on status of family and friends, social activities, and Ray Sondergard's employment.","Letters to Hilda Caley Noble from Nadine Noble Sondergard and Ray Sondergard on establishing new household, cooking, social activities and Ray Sondergard's employment, illness, and firing.","Letters to Hilda Caley Noble from Nadine Noble Sondergard on establishing new household, cooking, social activities, Ray Sondergard's new employment, illness and moving to new house.","Letters to Hilda Caley Noble from Nadine Noble Sondergard on running household, cooking, social activities, travels, family health issues and sympathy cards from friends on Maybelle Caley Barker.","Letters to Hilda Caley Noble from Nadine Noble Sondergard on running household, cooking, social activities, travels, family health issues and sympathy cards from friends on Maybelle Caley Barker's death and Nadine's pregnancy.","Letters to Hilda Caley Noble from Nadine Noble Sondergard on running household, child rearing, cooking, social activities, travels, family health issues (cancer death of mother-in-law), Ray Sondergard looking for employment, and friends on health issues, weather, social gossip, and updates on status of family and friends.","Letters to Hilda Caley Noble from Nadine Noble Sondergard child health issues, cooking, social activities, travels, family health issues, and concern about weight gain. Ray Sondergard going on welfare due to illness, friends on health issues, weather, social gossip, and updates on status of family and friends.","Diary (13.5 x 19.5), red brick, 1954, writer was 65/66 years old, full page daily entries on her activities along with notes on Maybelle Caley Barkers and Nadine Noble Sondergard activities with little to no recording of how author felt about them; no mention of local, national or world events except 1954 World Series between Cleveland Indians and New York Giants, some mention of television shows. Subjects also include holiday and birthday celebrations with gifts, weather observations, daily household operations, correspondence and telephone calls from family and friends, health issues of self and mother (Mary Davidson Caley who lives with them), church attendance, shopping, cooking, division of chores within the household, lunches and social activities, financial status, other families' weddings, and holiday and birthday celebrations with gifts. Hilda Caley Noble liked to doodle in the margins.","Diary (13.5 x 19.5 cm), red, 1956, writer was 67/68 years old, full page daily entries on her activities along with notes on Maybelle Caley Barkers and Nadine Noble Sondergard activities with little to no recording of how author felt about them; sporadic mention of local, national or world events such as earthquakes, train wrecks, fires, H Bomb detonation (17 May), bomb explosion at bus station (7 June), President Eisenhower heart attack (8-9, 11 Jun), ship collision (26 July); Canasta parties, regular mention of television shows ($64,000 Question). Subjects include holiday and birthday celebrations with gifts, weather observations, daily household operations, correspondence and telephone calls from family and friends, health issues of self and mother (Mary Davidson Caley who lives with them), church attendance, Nadine Noble Sondergard and bible school, shopping, cooking, supper menus, division of chores within the household, lunches and social activities, financial status, pets (birds) other families' weddings, holiday and birthday celebrations with gifts, deaths of friends and family, and local travel. Hilda Caley Noble liked to doodle on the margins and use different color inks including green, purple, blue, red, black. Diary (13.5 x 19.5 cm), brick red, 1957, writer was 68/69 years old, full page daily entries on her activities along with notes on Maybelle Caley Barkers and Nadine Noble Sondergard activities with little to no recording of how author felt about them; sporadic mention of local, national or world events (President Eisenhower inauguration (21 January), Ku Klux Klan cross burning (9 February), President Eisenhower's stroke (26-27 November). Subjects also include holiday and birthday celebrations with gifts, weather observations, daily household operations, regular mention of television shows, correspondence and telephone calls from family and friends, health issues of self and Nadine Noble Sondergard, church attendance, Nadine Noble Sondergard and bible school, shopping at the Safeway grocery store, cooking, supper menus, division of chores within the household, lunches and social activities, financial status, pets, other families weddings, historical society business and tours, deaths of friends and family, and local travel. Hilda Caley Noble liked to doodle in the margins and used different color inks including green, purple, blue, red, black.","Diary (9.5 x 13.5 cm), maroon, 1958, writer was 69/70 years old, full page daily entries on her activities along with notes on Maybelle Caley Barker's and Nadine Noble Sondergard's activities with little to no recording of how author felt about them; sparse mention of local, national or world events, regular mention of television shows. Subjects also include holiday and birthday celebrations with gifts activities; weather observations, daily household operations, correspondence from family and friends, health issues of self and Nadine Noble Sondergard, church attendance, Nadine Noble Sondergard and bible school, shopping at the Safeway grocery store, cooking, supper menus, division of chores within the household, lunches and social activities, financial status, pets (birds \u0026 cat), other families' weddings, holiday and birthday celebrations with gifts, deaths of friends and family, and local travel. Hilda Caley Noble liked to doodle in the margins.","Diary (13.5 x 19.5 cm), red, 1960, writer was 71/72 Years old, full page daily entries on her activities along with notes on Maybelle Caley Barker's and Nadine Noble Sondergard's activities with little to no recording of how author felt about them; sparse mention of local, national or world events: President Eisenhower coming to Los Angeles, California (27 January), Eisenhower's South American Trip (22 February), and earthquakes. Subjects also include holiday and birthday celebrations with gifts activities; weather observations, daily household operations, correspondence from family and friends, health issues of self (1st \u0026 2nd surgical operations 21 \u0026 29 Sepember ) writes about \"very important election between Mr. Kennedy \u0026 Mr. Nixon for President\" and Maybelle's work with precinct and vote tallies (8 November), mother (Mary Davidson Caley) and Nadine Noble Sondergard (colitis), church attendance, cooking, supper menus, division of chores within the household, lunches and social activities, financial transactions, pets (dog-Moo-Moo), and deaths of friends and family. Diary (13.5 x 19.5 cm), olive green, 1962, writer was 73/74 years old, full page daily entries on her activities along with notes on Maybelle Caley Barker's and Nadine Noble Sondergard's activities with little to no recording of how author felt about them; sparse mention of local, national or world events: (Cuban Missile Crisis (22 October-02 November) grocery stores empty, stocking up on food, war at any time, ships and blockade, dismantling bases in Cuba ). Subjects also include mother's death (Mary Davidson Caley) (23 January), church attendance, cooking, supper menus, division of chores within the household, lunches and social activities, financial transactions, pets (dog Moo-Moo), holiday and birthday celebrations with gifts, and deaths of friends and family.","Scope and Contents Diary (13.5 x 19.5 cm), red, 1963, writer was 74/75 Years old, full page daily entries on her activities along with notes on Maybelle Caley Barkers and Nadine Noble Sondergard activities with little to no recording of how author felt about them; sparse mention of local, national or world events (President Kennedy leaving for Europe (22 June), \"Negroes picketing in Los Angeles\", Pope Paul VI (24 June), Forest fires and Earthquakes, President Kennedy baby death (9-10 August 13), Billy Graham crusade (20 August), President Kennedy assassination and President Johnson new president (22-25 November). Subjects also include church attendance, cooking, supper menus, division of chores within the household, lunches and social activities (playing canasta, Senior Citizen meetings), financial transactions, budgets, health issues of Nadine Noble Sondergard and herself (fall), pets (dog Moo-Moo), holiday and birthday celebrations with gifts, and deaths of friends and family, watching TV on colored set, notes on TV actors death, TV Shows: Ed Sullivan, Lawrence Welk, Hazel, Lassie, Petticoat Junction, and TV being broke is problem (January)(June). Diary (13.5 x 19.5 cm), white,1964, writer was 75/76 years old, full page daily entries on her activities along with notes on Maybelle Caley Barkers and Nadine Noble Sondergard activities with little to no recording of how author felt about them; sparse mention of local, national or world events (Alaska earthquake (27 March), bus strike (June), Mexico City earthquake (6 July), forest fire (24 September). Entires also include church attendance, supper menus, lunches, and social activities. (playing Canasta, senior citizen meetings, Historical Association, Disneyland visit (7 October), 1st mention of Ray Sondergard (7 October), vacation in Long Beach, California (October), Ray and Nadine's courtship, Ray proposed to Nadine (21 November), financial transactions, budgets, health issues of Nadine Noble Sondergard, pets (dog Moo-Moo), holiday and birthday celebrations with gifts, weather observations, and deaths of friends and family. TV shows include Petticoat Junction, Beverly Hillbillies, Hazel, Lawrence Welk, Republican convention with Goldwater (13-17 July), Dick Van Dyke, Lassie, Candid Camera, Election coverage (3 November),\"Johnson won by a landside\".","Scope and Contents Diary (13.5 x 19.5 cm), red, 1965, writer was 76/77 years old, full page daily entries on her activities along with notes on Maybelle Caley Barkers, Nadine Noble Sondergard and Ray Sondergard activities with little recording of how author felt about them except for Ray Sondergard; sparse mention of local, national or world events. Winston Churchill funeral (30 January), earthquake in Seattle (29 April), Ray and Nadine's courtship, on and off engagement, Hilda's dislike of Ray (\"I am afraid he will never amount to anything as he will not work only a short time then gives up\" )(10 June), Ray goes back to first wife (28 July). Ray leaves wife and back in Long Beach and contacts Nadine (6 December), Sierra Madre earthquake (16 July), riot in Los Angeles with \"colored people in Watts\", National Guard sent in, curfew in Los Angeles, riot in Pasadena, CA (12-17 August), blackout in northeastern US and Canada (9 November). Also includes holiday and birthday celebrations with gifts, playing Canasta, pets (dog Moo-Moo), weather observations, and deaths of friends and family and TV shows include Lawrence Welk, Petticoat Junction, Ed Sullivan. Diary (13.5 x 19.5 cm), black, 1966, writer was 77/78 years old, full page daily entries on her activities along with notes on Maybelle Caley Barkers, Nadine Noble Sondergard and Ray Sondergard activities with little recording of how author felt about them. Subjects include Ray and Nadine's courtship ( Ray and Nadine date again (21 January), secretly married in Las Vegas (27 January) but Hilda didn't \"know about it until after Easter\" (11 April), honeymoon trip to Portland, Oregon (15-26 April), Nadine and Ray move to Salem, Ray losing jobs, sparse mention of local, national or world events, holiday and birthday celebrations with gifts, playing Canasta, pets (dog Moo-Moo), health issues (Ray Sondergard, Maybelle Caley Barker), weather observations, and deaths of friends and family and TV shows include Lassie, My Favorite Martian, and Ed Sullivan.","Photographs in family portrait settings of Hilda Caley Noble with Nadine Noble Sondergard and family members.","Correspondence included in the series was recieved by Nadine Noble Sondergard. Correspondence is between her mother, Hilda Caley Noble, her aunt, Maybelle Caley Barker, and friends. Four diaries from the 1950s and 1960s are also in the series.","Diary (13 x 19 cm), spiral bound, brown, 1952, writer was 22 years old. Entries about weather, daily activities, church attendance, social calls (visits) after church, Hilda Caley Nobel and Abba/Aunt Belle (Maybelle Caley Barker), smog, health issues, social activities such as teas, women's club luncheons, vacation to Long Beach, California (October), writes about seeing Richard Nixon and family (31 October).","Scope and Contents Diary (15 x 21 cm), red, 1963 writer was 34/35 years old. Daily entries with breaks of over week after late April: on dating ex-boyfriends: Sam Brown, Frank Camden, Bill, Ward ?, John Snapp (2 months, and Stanley Kelley (2 dates/2 weeks) of which she notes the dates she met and broke up and why, very emotional and intense, relations with mother, holiday and birthday celebrations with gifts, worried about weight, health of mother (Cancer?), she is constantly ill, church attendance and Sunday school teaching, conflict with Mother (attributes it multiple times to cancer returning), dislike of \"Abba\"(Maybelle Caley Barker) (cheap, inconsiderate), multiple day entries on John F. Kennedy's assassination and funeral. Diary (13 x 19.5 cm), green, 1964, writer was 35/36 years old. Almost daily entries include mother's health (76 yrs old), concerns about weight, personal health, flu, weather observations, church attendance, division of chores within the household,and driving test (passed written driving test at 34 yrs old but cancelled driving lessons after a number of lessons because she was too nervous, but started back up). Meets future husband (Ray) in September. No entries for three weeks until they are dating in late October then followed by daily very personal entries on status of courtship for a 35 year old never married, virgin female and a recovering, male alcoholic with an ex-wife and three children.","Diary (14 x 19.5 cm), red, 1966, writer was 37/38 years old: sporadic entries. January 1-24, 1966 are torn out. Ray Sondergard and Nadine Noble Caley went to Las Vegas and got married on 26 January 1966, but did not inform anyone. She continues to live at home, thinks she may be pregnant, still has dates with Ray for drives, and longs for house together. Last entry April 10, 1966.","Letters to Nadine Noble Sondergard from friend Evelyn Bauer reference the loss of Bauer's baby (miscarriage), setting up house, in-law troubles; family updates from relatives."],"separatedmaterial_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eArtifacts were transferred upon receipt to the Manuscripts Artifact Collection (Mss. 1.03): Green leather clutch with metal letters MC (2012.192.01) and pair of nylon white elbow length gloves (2012.192.02ab)\u003c/p\u003e"],"separatedmaterial_heading_ssm":["Separated Materials:"],"separatedmaterial_tesim":["Artifacts were transferred upon receipt to the Manuscripts Artifact Collection (Mss. 1.03): Green leather clutch with metal letters MC (2012.192.01) and pair of nylon white elbow length gloves (2012.192.02ab)"],"userestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eBefore reproducing or quoting from any materials, in whole or in part, permission must be obtained from the Special Collections Research Center, and the holder of the copyright, if not Swem Library.\u003c/p\u003e"],"userestrict_heading_ssm":["Conditions Governing Use:"],"userestrict_tesim":["Before reproducing or quoting from any materials, in whole or in part, permission must be obtained from the Special Collections Research Center, and the holder of the copyright, if not Swem Library."],"names_ssim":["Special Collections Research Center","Caley family","Hilda Caley Noble, 1917-1968","Mary Davidson Caley, 1895-1962","Maybelle Caley Barker, 1897-1968","Nadine Noble Sondergard (1952-1967), 1952-1967"],"corpname_ssim":["Special Collections Research Center"],"famname_ssim":["Caley family","Hilda Caley Noble, 1917-1968","Mary Davidson Caley, 1895-1962","Maybelle Caley Barker, 1897-1968"],"persname_ssim":["Nadine Noble Sondergard (1952-1967), 1952-1967"],"language_ssim":["English"],"total_component_count_is":58,"online_item_count_is":0,"component_level_isim":[0],"sort_isi":0,"timestamp":"2026-05-21T13:49:09.413Z","collection":{"numFound":1,"start":0,"numFoundExact":true,"docs":[{"id":"viw_repositories_2_resources_8525","ead_ssi":"viw_repositories_2_resources_8525","_root_":"viw_repositories_2_resources_8525","_nest_parent_":"viw_repositories_2_resources_8525","ead_source_url_ssi":"data/oai/WM/repositories_2_resources_8525.xml","title_filing_ssi":"Caley Family Papers","title_ssm":["Caley Family Papers"],"title_tesim":["Caley Family Papers"],"unitdate_ssm":["circa 1895-1968"],"unitdate_inclusive_ssm":["circa 1895-1968"],"level_ssm":["collection"],"level_ssim":["Collection"],"unitid_ssm":["Mss. Acc. 2012.192","/repositories/2/resources/8525"],"text":["Mss. Acc. 2012.192","/repositories/2/resources/8525","Caley Family Papers","California--History--1850-1950","California--Social life and customs","Diaries","Letters (correspondence)","Printed ephemera","Collection is open to all researchers. Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, such as the Virginia Public Records Act (Code of Virginia. § 42.1-76-91); and the Virginia Freedom of Information Act (Code of Virginia § 2.2-3705.5). Confidential material may include, but is not limited to, educational, medical, and personnel records. If sensitive material is found in this collection, please contact a staff member immediately. The disclosure of personally identifiable information pertaining to a living individual may have legal consequences for which the College of William and Mary assumes no responsibility.","This collection is arranged into four series: Series 1: Mary Davidson Caley, 1895-1962; Series 2: Maybelle Caley Barker, 1897-1969; Series 3: Hilda Caley Noble, 1917-1968; Series 4: Nadine Noble Sondergard, 1957-1967.","  Mary Davidson Caley, (1861-1962) married (1887) William Paul Caley (1859-1943) and moved from Ohio to South Pasadena, California with her two daughters, Maybelle Caley Barker (1889-1967) and Hilda Caley Noble (1888 - 1972). Mary Davidson Caley was told to move to California from Ohio due to her health. The Caley's eventually settled in Sierra Madre in 1895 where William was the first Street Superintendent and Tax Collector. Maybelle Caley Barker married former Army Captain Clyde (Clinton) Barker (1889-1936) in 1918. Maybelle and Clinton did not have any children. When Clinton died (1936), Maybelle never remarried and remained in Sierra Madre. Hilda Caley Noble (1888 - 1972) married John Noble and their daughter Nadine Noble Sondergard (1928- 2008) married (1965) Ray Sondergard (1920-1998).\n\n ","Administrative History:  Mary Davidson Caley, (1861-1962) married (1887) William Paul Caley (1859-1943) and moved from Ohio to South Pasadena, California with her two daughters, Maybelle Caley Barker (1889-1967) and Hilda Caley Noble (1888 - 1972).  Mary Davidson Caley was told to move to California from Ohio due to her health.  The Caley's eventually settled in Sierra Madre in 1895 where William was the first Street Superintendent and Tax Collector. Maybelle Caley Barker married former Army Captain Clyde (Clinton) Barker (1889-1936) in 1918.  Maybelle and Clinton did not have any children. When Clinton died (1936), Maybelle never remarried and remained in Sierra Madre. Hilda Caley Noble (1888 - 1972) married John Noble and their daughter Nadine Noble Sondergard (1928- 2008) married (1965) Ray Sondergard (1920-1998).\n\n ","Mary Davidson Caley, (1861-1962) married (1887) William Paul Caley (1859-1943) and moved from Ohio to South Pasadena, California with her two daughters, Maybelle Caley Barker (1889-1967) and Hilda Caley Noble (1888 - 1972). Mary Davidson Caley was told to move to California from Ohio due to her health. The Caley's eventually settled in Sierra Madre in 1895 where William was the first Street Superintendent and Tax Collector. Maybelle Caley Barker married former Army Captain Clyde (Clinton) Barker (1889-1936) in 1918. Maybelle and Clinton did not have any children. When Clinton died (1936), Maybelle never remarried and remained in Sierra Madre. Hilda Caley Noble (1888 - 1972) married John Noble and their daughter Nadine Noble Sondergard (1928- 2008) married (1965) Ray Sondergard (1920-1998).","Mary Davidson Caley, (1861-1962) married (1887) William Paul Caley (1859-1943) and moved from Ohio to South Pasadena, California with her two daughters, Maybelle Caley Barker (1889-1967) and Hilda Caley Noble (1888 - 1972).  Mary Davidson Caley was told to move to California from Ohio due to her health.  The Caley's eventually settled in Sierra Madre in 1895 where William was the first Street Superintendent and Tax Collector. Maybelle Caley Barker married former Army Captain Clyde (Clinton) Barker (1889-1936) in 1918.  Maybelle and Clinton did not have any children. When Clinton died (1936), Maybelle never remarried and remained in Sierra Madre. Hilda Caley Noble (1888 - 1972) married John Noble and their daughter Nadine Noble Sondergard (1928- 2008) married (1965) Ray Sondergard (1920-1998).","Artifacts were transferred upon receipt to the Manuscripts Artifact Collection (Mss. 1.03): Green leather clutch with metal letters MC (2012.192.01) and pair of nylon white elbow length gloves (2012.192.02ab)."," Information about related materials is available at http://guides.swem.wm.edu/scrc-women","The collection is mostly personal correspondence and diaries, chiefly 1895-1968, collected and written by Mary Davidson Caley, her two daughters, Maybelle Caley Barker and Hilda Caley Noble, and Hilda's daughter, Nadine Noble Sondergard. The Caley's were white middle class women who lived in Sierra Madre, California for the majority of their lives.  The personal letters and diaries of three generations of women contain topics related to the household operations, Spanish Flu 1918, farm operations in Ohio 1918, family finances, health concerns, local and national issues (Kennedy Assassination (1963), Watts Riots (1965) as well as social and religious activities."," Maybelle's, Hilda's and Nadine's diary entries and letters on Nadine and Ray Sondergard's courtship and early years together reflect the different perspectives of the women and their family interpersonal relationships and dynamics.  Nadine married late in life for the time (36 years old) and it was her husband Ray's (45 years old) second marriage. He had an uneven employment history. They had at least one son. The Caley women lived and traveled up and down the US northwest coast from California to Oregon and frequently visited Ohio for extended periods. The women's diaries span from 1951-1966 while the letters are from 1895-1968.  Mary Davidson Caley and Maybelle Caley Barker have a few individual diaries and notebooks from earlier years. Correspondence from over 80 friends and relatives of the Caley's addressed to the women is included as well as 87 photographs of family, friends and landscapes.  The correspondence is filed and organized by receipent rather than sender.","Correspondence included in the series was recieved by Mary Davidson Caley and William P. Caley. Correspondence is between Mary Davidson Caley, her two daughters Hilda Caley Noble and Maybelle Caley Barker and numerous friends along with several photographs of family, friends and landscapes scenes.","Letters about health issues, Christmas gifts in 1895, and fashions between family and friends.","Predominantly letters from brother-in-law, J.C. Caley concerning health of the family, business dealings, and letter from Maybelle Caley Barker on ship to Washington.","Letters between family and friends about health issues, costs of groceries, meals and dining, fashions, weather, work stories, and updates on status of old friends (sick or deceased) in Ohio. Letter about automobile ride that took three hours for 44 miles in Ohio (1917). Numerous letters from Maybelle Caley Barker to Mary Davidson Caley from trip to Ohio (1917).","Letters about health issues, costs of groceries, meals and dining, women's fashions, women's employment opportunties, weather, work stories, and updates on status of old friends (sick or deceased) from Maybelle Caley Barker and Hilda Caley Noble. Numerous letters from Hilda Caley Noble to Mary Davidson Caley during trip to Painesville, Ohio (1918).","Weekly letters from Maybelle Caley Barker and Hilda Caley Noble from Ohio about health issues (deaths from Spanish Flu outbreak), shopping, cost of groceries, meals and dining, fashion, weather, farm operations in Ohio, World War I Armistice Celebrations, women's employment, updates on status of old friends (sick or deceased), working with Red Cross, anti-Catholic feelings.","Letters to Mary Davidson Caley and William Paul Caley from Maybelle Caley Barker, Hilda Caley Noble and friends in Ohio about health issues, shopping, costs of groceries, meals and dining, fashions, weather, dating, finances, updates on status of family and friends (sick or deceased), and news of relative returning from World War I and his experience in the Argonne Forest.","Letters to Mary Davidson Caley and William Paul Caley from Maybelle Caley Barker, Hilda Caley Noble and friends in Ohio about health issues, farm operations (pigs dying of Cholera), housekeeping with new washing machine, shopping, costs of groceries, meals and dining, fashions, weather, dating, finances, updates on status of family and friends (sick or deceased), and Christmas shopping and presents","Letters to Mary Davidson Caley and William Paul Caley from Maybelle Caley Barker, Hilda Caley Noble and friends in Ohio about health issues (Influenza Flu), farm operations (selling chickens and ducks), housekeeping, women employment, shopping, costs of groceries, meals and dining, fashions, weather, dating, finances, updates on status of family and friends, and going out for entertainment (movies and shows). Comments on Baptists, Methodists, Christian Scientists, and Jews interspersed throughout letters in sometimes less than flattering context.","Letters to Mary Davidson Caley and William Paul Caley from Maybelle Caley Barker, Hilda Caley Noble and friends in Ohio about health issues, farm operations housekeeping, women's employment, shopping, cost of groceries, meals and dining, fashions, weather, dating, finances, and updates on status of family and friends.","Letters to Mary Davidson Caley from Maybelle Caley Barker, Hilda Caley Noble and friends in Ohio about health issues, women's employment, shopping, costs of groceries, fashions, weather, social gossip, finances, and updates on status of family and friends. Letter from friend on trip through New Orleans, Biloxi, Panama Canal Zone and stops in Central America.","Letters to Mary Davidson Caley from Hilda Caley Noble in Mantua, Ohio and friends about health issues, children (Nadine Noble Sondergard), cost of groceries, weather, social gossip, finances, and updates on status of family and friends. Impact of Great Depression.","Letters to Mary Davidson Caley from Hilda Caley Noble in Mantua, Ohio and friends about health issues, children (Nadine Noble Sondergard), relations with in-laws, costs of groceries, weather, social gossip, finances, and updates on status of family and friends.","Letters to Mary Davidson Caley from family, cousins and friends about health issues, children, weather, social gossip, and updates on status of family and friends. Effects of Great Depression.","Letters to Mary Davidson Caley from Maybelle Caley Barker, Hilda Caley Noble, family, cousins and friends about health issues, children, weather, social gossip, updates on status of family and friends, death of family members, and social activities.","Letters to Mary Davidson Caley from Maybelle Caley Barker, Hilda Caley Noble family, cousins and friends about health issues, children, weather, social gossip, updates on status of family and friends, death of family members, and social activities. Long letter from friend about attendance at Missionary Conference in Camp Webster, Kansas in 1954 that reveals missionary activities in Sierra Leone Africa and New Mexico.","Undated and loose pages of letters to Mary Davidson Caley from Maybelle Caley Barker, Hilda Caley Noble family, cousins and friends about health issues, children, weather, comments on World War I (dislike of Germans and reactions within social circles), social gossip, updates on status of family and friends, death of family members, and social activities.","Printed materials: funeral announcements, newspaper articles on Senator Everett Colby (New Jersey), Republican primaries, crime, color prints pages from books, Practical Astrology magazine Gemini (June 1929), Isle of Man picture Calendar (1959), Magazine of World Manx Association, (June 1927), Oregon Schedule of Events (1967), Bonneville Dam brochure (1965).","Photographs in family portrait settings including Mary Caley Davidson, William Paul Caley, Hilda Caley Noble, Maybelle Caley Barker, Nadine Noble Sondergard, Swans, Mame Veber.","Two small diaries (6 cm x 14 cm)from American Bridge Company of New York. They belonged to Irving Dickinson (unknown relation to Caley) contain regular entries on weather observations, receipt of letters from family, and health issues.","Small (6 x 10 cm) address book (Teepee and Painesville, Ohio cover), contains family birthdays and Christmas gifts from 1947-1948; small black diary (5 x 7.5 cm) 1948 with sporadic entry for January 1948 on social events and dinning out; small notebook(8 x 13 cm) (1922) containing entries on numerous flowers and vegetable planting, blooming and harvesting dates; small red notebook (8.5 x 10 cm) for Christmas gifts (1906); small (8 x 15 cm) red water damaged diary (1911/1912) from Maybelle Caley Barker containing short and long hand script of diary entries by day but not date.","Photographs of people including: Dean Snyder,William Caley, John Vanderburg, M.L. Snedden, Elizabeth Turner, Warren Eugene Pennell (1929), Ruth Evely Pennell (1929), Mary Graham, Alberta and Frank Sheets, Stella Norris (1943), Frances Zigler (1943), Margie Meachum (1937), Diana Meachum (1937), Trent Meachum (1937), women in bathing suits (1930/1940/1950?); unknown people and scenery from the following locations: New York Harbor with Statute of Liberty (early 20th Century), Ford Model A, Palm Springs motel (1950s), Sutter Mill, California (1950s).","Spreadsheet of names generated from notes attached to letters when collection was processed along with some web research used in compiling the biographical information.","Correspondence included in the series was recieved by Maybelle Caley Barker. Correspondence is between Maybelle Caley Barker, her sister Hilda Caley Noble, her neice Nadine Noble Sondergard, and numerous friends. Nine diaries from the 1950s and 1960s along with one diary from 1915 are in the series. Several photographs of Maybelle Caley Barker with family and friends are also included.","Letters to Maybelle Caley Barker from Hilda Caley Noble, Nadine Noble Sondergard, family, cousins and friends about health issues, children, weather, social gossip, updates on status of family and friends, death of family members, social activities. Correspondence from Church activities, Prohibition activities (1914),World War II Home front activities in California (1942).","Letters to Maybelle Caley Barker from Hilda Caley Noble, Nadine Noble Sondergard, family, cousins and friends about health issues, mental illness, divorce, alcoholism, children, weather, social gossip, updates on status of family and friends, death of family members, and social activities. Letters from friend who moved back to Guadalajara, Mexico (1955 \u0026 1957).","Letters to Maybelle Caley Barker from Hilda Caley Noble, family, cousins and friends about health issues, children, weather, social gossip, updates on status of family and friends, and death of family members. Trailer park living in 1963-1965, race relations, racism discussions from friends, and reactions to Marines going to Vietnam (1965).","Letters to Maybelle Caley Barker from Hilda Caley Noble and friends about health issues, weather, social gossip, updates on status of family and friends, and social activities. Complicated family relations between Nadine and Ray, race riots (1966), and crime.","Letters to Maybelle Caley Barker from friends about health issues, weather, social gossip, updates on status of family and friends, and social activities. Opposition to President Johnson and war in Vietnam.","Letters to Maybelle Caley Barker from friends about health issues, updates on status of family and friends, and social activities.","School notebook and diary (19 x 24 cm) brown, 1906-1907, writer was 17/18 years old. School notebook with short stories, school reports on Washington Irving, George Washington, exams for first part of book and diary entries interspersed through second part of the notebook along with loose leaf pages about daily activities, weather observations, homework, baking and cooking, and teachers.","Scope and Contents Diary (13.5 x 20 cm), red brick, 1915, (1920, 1921), partial and full page daily entries, on her activities in Sierra Madre, California; playing tennis, dancing lessons, Courtship with Harry Barker (future husband), sparse mention of local, national or world events(\"Lusitania sunk by Germans probably means war\"(8 May). Subjects also include holiday and birthday celebrations with gifts, weather observations, daily household operations, correspondence from family and friends, health issues, lunches and social activities, deaths of friends and family, and local travel. Appears as though diary may have been double used, edited or updated in 1916-1921; entries in pencil. Uses shorthand for some entries in diary for sensitive items or practicing,and some French language entries. No entries 18 July - 17 August, 20 AUG - 3 September, 6-21 November. Updates from 1920 and 1921 include family and friends updates on marriage and death. Comments written after reading in 1937 and 1959. Diary (14 x 19.5 cm) green, 1959, writer was 70 years old, partial and full page daily entries (except for vacation during September) on her activities; sparse mention of local, national or world events (disliked raising taxes-voted against school tax, local crimes, bus strike, meat-cutters strikes); weather observations, daily household operations, correspondence from family and friends, health issues of self and Nadine Noble Sondergard (\"invalid of the family\" (31 March), historical society business and tours, lunches and social activities, financial status, pets (dog Moo-Moo), holiday and birthday celebrations with gifts, deaths of friends and family, local travel, and contains genealogical information on last two pages.","Diary (13.5 x 19.5 cm), black, 1951, writer was 62 years old, mainly partial and a few full page daily entries on her activities; sparse to no mention of local, national or world events. Subjects include holiday and birthday celebrations with gifts, weather observations, daily household operations, cooking and meals, correspondence from family and friends, lunches and social activities, financial transactions, deaths of friends and family, local travel and vacations. Diary (13.5 x 19.5 cm), red brick, 1952, writer was 63 years old, mainly partial and a few full page daily entries on her activities; sparse to no mention of local, national or world events; (President Eisenhower Nomination, 11 July, Eisenhower wins in landslide, 4 November. Subjects include holiday and birthday celebrations with gifts, weather observations, church activities, election board activities, daily household operations, cooking and meals, correspondence from family and friends, lunches and social activities, financial transactions (budget and list of bank assets in back of diary), deaths of friends and family, local travel, and vacations.","Diary (13.5 x 19.5 cm) green, 1963, writer was 73/74 years old, mainly partial and a few full page daily entries on her activities; sparse to no mention of local, national or world events. President Kennedy's baby died (8-9 August) Billy Graham Revival at Olympic Stadium (20 August), President Kennedy assassination (22-25 November). subjects include holiday and birthday celebrations with gifts; weather observations, daily household operations, cooking and meals, correspondence from family and friends, lunches and social activities, historical society activities, pets (Moo-Moo), health issues (Nadine Noble Sondergard, Hilda Caley Noble), financial transactions, deaths of friends and family, local travel, and vacations. Diary (13.5 x 19.5 cm) brick red, 1964, writer was 74/75 years old, mainly partial and a few full page daily entries on her activities; sparse to no mention of local, national or world events;(Gen. Douglas MacArthur died age 84 \"he was beloved by all\", Voted for Goldwater on Election day (2 June). Subjects include holiday and birthday celebrations with gifts activities; weather observations, daily household operations, cooking and meals, correspondence from family and friends, lunches and social activities (bridge club), historical society activities, senior citizen activities, pets (Moo-Moo), Ray Sondergard and Nadine Noble Sondergard courtship (9 November-30 December), financial transactions, and deaths of friends and family.","Diary (13.5 x 19.5 cm), olive green, 1965, writer was 75/76 years old, mainly partial and a few full page daily entries on her activities (week long stretches with no entries due to vacation and illnesses); sparse to no mention of local, national or world events; (Space walk with Ed White 3-7 June, \"Negroes rioting in in LA\", Watts Riots11-15 August. Subjects include holiday and birthday celebrations with gifts, weather observations, daily household operations, cooking and meals, correspondence from family and friends, lunches and social activities (bridge club, playing Canasta), historical society activities, social activities, Liberace concert (9 April), health issues, senior citizen activities, pets (Moo-Moo), church business, Ray Sondergard and Nadine Noble Sondergard courtship, Ray goes back to 1st wife (\"couldn't stand the TV dinners she (Nadine) served him,\" (29 Jul), financial transactions, deaths of friends and family, local travel, and vacations. Diary (13.5 x 19.5 cm), black, 1966, writer was 76/77 years old, mainly partial and a few full page daily entries on her activities (week or longer stretches with no entries due to vacation and increasing bouts of illnesses); sparse to no mention of local, national or world events \"Conditions bad in Vietnam against USA\" (8 April), Riot in Watts (18 May), Reagan won primary (8 June), memories of father (13 June), \"Republican's had big victory\" (8 November). Subjects include holiday and birthday celebrations with gifts, weather observations, daily household operations, cooking and meals, correspondence from family and friends, lunches and social activities (bridge club, playing Canasta), historical society activities, health issues (self, Ray) senior citizen activities, pets (Moo-Moo died,1 October, misses \"so much\"), church business, Ray Sondergard and Nadine Noble Sondergard renewed courtship, Ray quitting jobs, marriage (15 April), Ray ill and can't/won't work (26 August), financial transactions, and deaths of friends and family.","Photographs in family portrait settings of Maybelle Caley Barker with Marian Shaw, Mattie Spencer, Marian Brant, Gertrude Seaman, (Maybelle as child in 1895).","Correspondence included in the series was recieved by Hilda Caley Noble. Correspondence is between her daughter, Nadine Noble Sondergard, her sister, Maybelle Caley Barker, and numerous friends. Ten diaries from the 1950s and 1960s with daily full page entries are in the series. Photographs of Hilda Caley Noble with family and friends are also included.","Letters to Hilda Caley Noble from Maybelle Caley Barker, Nadine Noble Sondergard and friends about health issues, weather, updates on status of family and friends, and social activities. Title for House in Sierra Madre, California.","Letters to Hilda Caley Noble from Maybelle Caley Barker and friends about health issues, updates on status of family and friends, social activities, taxes, crime, pets, and cooking.","Letters to Hilda Caley Noble from Nadine Noble Sondergard, Maybelle Caley Barker, and Ray Sondergard on Nadine's Honeymoon and establishing new household, updates on status of family and friends, social activities, and Ray Sondergard's employment.","Letters to Hilda Caley Noble from Nadine Noble Sondergard and Ray Sondergard on establishing new household, cooking, social activities and Ray Sondergard's employment, illness, and firing.","Letters to Hilda Caley Noble from Nadine Noble Sondergard on establishing new household, cooking, social activities, Ray Sondergard's new employment, illness and moving to new house.","Letters to Hilda Caley Noble from Nadine Noble Sondergard on running household, cooking, social activities, travels, family health issues and sympathy cards from friends on Maybelle Caley Barker.","Letters to Hilda Caley Noble from Nadine Noble Sondergard on running household, cooking, social activities, travels, family health issues and sympathy cards from friends on Maybelle Caley Barker's death and Nadine's pregnancy.","Letters to Hilda Caley Noble from Nadine Noble Sondergard on running household, child rearing, cooking, social activities, travels, family health issues (cancer death of mother-in-law), Ray Sondergard looking for employment, and friends on health issues, weather, social gossip, and updates on status of family and friends.","Letters to Hilda Caley Noble from Nadine Noble Sondergard child health issues, cooking, social activities, travels, family health issues, and concern about weight gain. Ray Sondergard going on welfare due to illness, friends on health issues, weather, social gossip, and updates on status of family and friends.","Diary (13.5 x 19.5), red brick, 1954, writer was 65/66 years old, full page daily entries on her activities along with notes on Maybelle Caley Barkers and Nadine Noble Sondergard activities with little to no recording of how author felt about them; no mention of local, national or world events except 1954 World Series between Cleveland Indians and New York Giants, some mention of television shows. Subjects also include holiday and birthday celebrations with gifts, weather observations, daily household operations, correspondence and telephone calls from family and friends, health issues of self and mother (Mary Davidson Caley who lives with them), church attendance, shopping, cooking, division of chores within the household, lunches and social activities, financial status, other families' weddings, and holiday and birthday celebrations with gifts. Hilda Caley Noble liked to doodle in the margins.","Diary (13.5 x 19.5 cm), red, 1956, writer was 67/68 years old, full page daily entries on her activities along with notes on Maybelle Caley Barkers and Nadine Noble Sondergard activities with little to no recording of how author felt about them; sporadic mention of local, national or world events such as earthquakes, train wrecks, fires, H Bomb detonation (17 May), bomb explosion at bus station (7 June), President Eisenhower heart attack (8-9, 11 Jun), ship collision (26 July); Canasta parties, regular mention of television shows ($64,000 Question). Subjects include holiday and birthday celebrations with gifts, weather observations, daily household operations, correspondence and telephone calls from family and friends, health issues of self and mother (Mary Davidson Caley who lives with them), church attendance, Nadine Noble Sondergard and bible school, shopping, cooking, supper menus, division of chores within the household, lunches and social activities, financial status, pets (birds) other families' weddings, holiday and birthday celebrations with gifts, deaths of friends and family, and local travel. Hilda Caley Noble liked to doodle on the margins and use different color inks including green, purple, blue, red, black. Diary (13.5 x 19.5 cm), brick red, 1957, writer was 68/69 years old, full page daily entries on her activities along with notes on Maybelle Caley Barkers and Nadine Noble Sondergard activities with little to no recording of how author felt about them; sporadic mention of local, national or world events (President Eisenhower inauguration (21 January), Ku Klux Klan cross burning (9 February), President Eisenhower's stroke (26-27 November). Subjects also include holiday and birthday celebrations with gifts, weather observations, daily household operations, regular mention of television shows, correspondence and telephone calls from family and friends, health issues of self and Nadine Noble Sondergard, church attendance, Nadine Noble Sondergard and bible school, shopping at the Safeway grocery store, cooking, supper menus, division of chores within the household, lunches and social activities, financial status, pets, other families weddings, historical society business and tours, deaths of friends and family, and local travel. Hilda Caley Noble liked to doodle in the margins and used different color inks including green, purple, blue, red, black.","Diary (9.5 x 13.5 cm), maroon, 1958, writer was 69/70 years old, full page daily entries on her activities along with notes on Maybelle Caley Barker's and Nadine Noble Sondergard's activities with little to no recording of how author felt about them; sparse mention of local, national or world events, regular mention of television shows. Subjects also include holiday and birthday celebrations with gifts activities; weather observations, daily household operations, correspondence from family and friends, health issues of self and Nadine Noble Sondergard, church attendance, Nadine Noble Sondergard and bible school, shopping at the Safeway grocery store, cooking, supper menus, division of chores within the household, lunches and social activities, financial status, pets (birds \u0026 cat), other families' weddings, holiday and birthday celebrations with gifts, deaths of friends and family, and local travel. Hilda Caley Noble liked to doodle in the margins.","Diary (13.5 x 19.5 cm), red, 1960, writer was 71/72 Years old, full page daily entries on her activities along with notes on Maybelle Caley Barker's and Nadine Noble Sondergard's activities with little to no recording of how author felt about them; sparse mention of local, national or world events: President Eisenhower coming to Los Angeles, California (27 January), Eisenhower's South American Trip (22 February), and earthquakes. Subjects also include holiday and birthday celebrations with gifts activities; weather observations, daily household operations, correspondence from family and friends, health issues of self (1st \u0026 2nd surgical operations 21 \u0026 29 Sepember ) writes about \"very important election between Mr. Kennedy \u0026 Mr. Nixon for President\" and Maybelle's work with precinct and vote tallies (8 November), mother (Mary Davidson Caley) and Nadine Noble Sondergard (colitis), church attendance, cooking, supper menus, division of chores within the household, lunches and social activities, financial transactions, pets (dog-Moo-Moo), and deaths of friends and family. Diary (13.5 x 19.5 cm), olive green, 1962, writer was 73/74 years old, full page daily entries on her activities along with notes on Maybelle Caley Barker's and Nadine Noble Sondergard's activities with little to no recording of how author felt about them; sparse mention of local, national or world events: (Cuban Missile Crisis (22 October-02 November) grocery stores empty, stocking up on food, war at any time, ships and blockade, dismantling bases in Cuba ). Subjects also include mother's death (Mary Davidson Caley) (23 January), church attendance, cooking, supper menus, division of chores within the household, lunches and social activities, financial transactions, pets (dog Moo-Moo), holiday and birthday celebrations with gifts, and deaths of friends and family.","Scope and Contents Diary (13.5 x 19.5 cm), red, 1963, writer was 74/75 Years old, full page daily entries on her activities along with notes on Maybelle Caley Barkers and Nadine Noble Sondergard activities with little to no recording of how author felt about them; sparse mention of local, national or world events (President Kennedy leaving for Europe (22 June), \"Negroes picketing in Los Angeles\", Pope Paul VI (24 June), Forest fires and Earthquakes, President Kennedy baby death (9-10 August 13), Billy Graham crusade (20 August), President Kennedy assassination and President Johnson new president (22-25 November). Subjects also include church attendance, cooking, supper menus, division of chores within the household, lunches and social activities (playing canasta, Senior Citizen meetings), financial transactions, budgets, health issues of Nadine Noble Sondergard and herself (fall), pets (dog Moo-Moo), holiday and birthday celebrations with gifts, and deaths of friends and family, watching TV on colored set, notes on TV actors death, TV Shows: Ed Sullivan, Lawrence Welk, Hazel, Lassie, Petticoat Junction, and TV being broke is problem (January)(June). Diary (13.5 x 19.5 cm), white,1964, writer was 75/76 years old, full page daily entries on her activities along with notes on Maybelle Caley Barkers and Nadine Noble Sondergard activities with little to no recording of how author felt about them; sparse mention of local, national or world events (Alaska earthquake (27 March), bus strike (June), Mexico City earthquake (6 July), forest fire (24 September). Entires also include church attendance, supper menus, lunches, and social activities. (playing Canasta, senior citizen meetings, Historical Association, Disneyland visit (7 October), 1st mention of Ray Sondergard (7 October), vacation in Long Beach, California (October), Ray and Nadine's courtship, Ray proposed to Nadine (21 November), financial transactions, budgets, health issues of Nadine Noble Sondergard, pets (dog Moo-Moo), holiday and birthday celebrations with gifts, weather observations, and deaths of friends and family. TV shows include Petticoat Junction, Beverly Hillbillies, Hazel, Lawrence Welk, Republican convention with Goldwater (13-17 July), Dick Van Dyke, Lassie, Candid Camera, Election coverage (3 November),\"Johnson won by a landside\".","Scope and Contents Diary (13.5 x 19.5 cm), red, 1965, writer was 76/77 years old, full page daily entries on her activities along with notes on Maybelle Caley Barkers, Nadine Noble Sondergard and Ray Sondergard activities with little recording of how author felt about them except for Ray Sondergard; sparse mention of local, national or world events. Winston Churchill funeral (30 January), earthquake in Seattle (29 April), Ray and Nadine's courtship, on and off engagement, Hilda's dislike of Ray (\"I am afraid he will never amount to anything as he will not work only a short time then gives up\" )(10 June), Ray goes back to first wife (28 July). Ray leaves wife and back in Long Beach and contacts Nadine (6 December), Sierra Madre earthquake (16 July), riot in Los Angeles with \"colored people in Watts\", National Guard sent in, curfew in Los Angeles, riot in Pasadena, CA (12-17 August), blackout in northeastern US and Canada (9 November). Also includes holiday and birthday celebrations with gifts, playing Canasta, pets (dog Moo-Moo), weather observations, and deaths of friends and family and TV shows include Lawrence Welk, Petticoat Junction, Ed Sullivan. Diary (13.5 x 19.5 cm), black, 1966, writer was 77/78 years old, full page daily entries on her activities along with notes on Maybelle Caley Barkers, Nadine Noble Sondergard and Ray Sondergard activities with little recording of how author felt about them. Subjects include Ray and Nadine's courtship ( Ray and Nadine date again (21 January), secretly married in Las Vegas (27 January) but Hilda didn't \"know about it until after Easter\" (11 April), honeymoon trip to Portland, Oregon (15-26 April), Nadine and Ray move to Salem, Ray losing jobs, sparse mention of local, national or world events, holiday and birthday celebrations with gifts, playing Canasta, pets (dog Moo-Moo), health issues (Ray Sondergard, Maybelle Caley Barker), weather observations, and deaths of friends and family and TV shows include Lassie, My Favorite Martian, and Ed Sullivan.","Photographs in family portrait settings of Hilda Caley Noble with Nadine Noble Sondergard and family members.","Correspondence included in the series was recieved by Nadine Noble Sondergard. Correspondence is between her mother, Hilda Caley Noble, her aunt, Maybelle Caley Barker, and friends. Four diaries from the 1950s and 1960s are also in the series.","Diary (13 x 19 cm), spiral bound, brown, 1952, writer was 22 years old. Entries about weather, daily activities, church attendance, social calls (visits) after church, Hilda Caley Nobel and Abba/Aunt Belle (Maybelle Caley Barker), smog, health issues, social activities such as teas, women's club luncheons, vacation to Long Beach, California (October), writes about seeing Richard Nixon and family (31 October).","Scope and Contents Diary (15 x 21 cm), red, 1963 writer was 34/35 years old. Daily entries with breaks of over week after late April: on dating ex-boyfriends: Sam Brown, Frank Camden, Bill, Ward ?, John Snapp (2 months, and Stanley Kelley (2 dates/2 weeks) of which she notes the dates she met and broke up and why, very emotional and intense, relations with mother, holiday and birthday celebrations with gifts, worried about weight, health of mother (Cancer?), she is constantly ill, church attendance and Sunday school teaching, conflict with Mother (attributes it multiple times to cancer returning), dislike of \"Abba\"(Maybelle Caley Barker) (cheap, inconsiderate), multiple day entries on John F. Kennedy's assassination and funeral. Diary (13 x 19.5 cm), green, 1964, writer was 35/36 years old. Almost daily entries include mother's health (76 yrs old), concerns about weight, personal health, flu, weather observations, church attendance, division of chores within the household,and driving test (passed written driving test at 34 yrs old but cancelled driving lessons after a number of lessons because she was too nervous, but started back up). Meets future husband (Ray) in September. No entries for three weeks until they are dating in late October then followed by daily very personal entries on status of courtship for a 35 year old never married, virgin female and a recovering, male alcoholic with an ex-wife and three children.","Diary (14 x 19.5 cm), red, 1966, writer was 37/38 years old: sporadic entries. January 1-24, 1966 are torn out. Ray Sondergard and Nadine Noble Caley went to Las Vegas and got married on 26 January 1966, but did not inform anyone. She continues to live at home, thinks she may be pregnant, still has dates with Ray for drives, and longs for house together. Last entry April 10, 1966.","Letters to Nadine Noble Sondergard from friend Evelyn Bauer reference the loss of Bauer's baby (miscarriage), setting up house, in-law troubles; family updates from relatives.","Artifacts were transferred upon receipt to the Manuscripts Artifact Collection (Mss. 1.03): Green leather clutch with metal letters MC (2012.192.01) and pair of nylon white elbow length gloves (2012.192.02ab)","Before reproducing or quoting from any materials, in whole or in part, permission must be obtained from the Special Collections Research Center, and the holder of the copyright, if not Swem Library.","Special Collections Research Center","Caley family","Hilda Caley Noble, 1917-1968","Mary Davidson Caley, 1895-1962","Maybelle Caley Barker, 1897-1968","Nadine Noble Sondergard (1952-1967), 1952-1967","English"],"unitid_tesim":["Mss. 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Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, such as the Virginia Public Records Act (Code of Virginia. § 42.1-76-91); and the Virginia Freedom of Information Act (Code of Virginia § 2.2-3705.5). Confidential material may include, but is not limited to, educational, medical, and personnel records. If sensitive material is found in this collection, please contact a staff member immediately. The disclosure of personally identifiable information pertaining to a living individual may have legal consequences for which the College of William and Mary assumes no responsibility.\u003c/p\u003e"],"accessrestrict_heading_ssm":["Conditions Governing Access:"],"accessrestrict_tesim":["Collection is open to all researchers. Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, such as the Virginia Public Records Act (Code of Virginia. § 42.1-76-91); and the Virginia Freedom of Information Act (Code of Virginia § 2.2-3705.5). Confidential material may include, but is not limited to, educational, medical, and personnel records. If sensitive material is found in this collection, please contact a staff member immediately. The disclosure of personally identifiable information pertaining to a living individual may have legal consequences for which the College of William and Mary assumes no responsibility."],"arrangement_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThis collection is arranged into four series: Series 1: Mary Davidson Caley, 1895-1962; Series 2: Maybelle Caley Barker, 1897-1969; Series 3: Hilda Caley Noble, 1917-1968; Series 4: Nadine Noble Sondergard, 1957-1967.\u003c/p\u003e"],"arrangement_heading_ssm":["Arrangement of Materials:"],"arrangement_tesim":["This collection is arranged into four series: Series 1: Mary Davidson Caley, 1895-1962; Series 2: Maybelle Caley Barker, 1897-1969; Series 3: Hilda Caley Noble, 1917-1968; Series 4: Nadine Noble Sondergard, 1957-1967."],"bioghist_html_tesm":["\u003cbioghist altrender=\"Family History\" encodinganalog=\"545$a\"\u003e  Mary Davidson Caley, (1861-1962) married (1887) William Paul Caley (1859-1943) and moved from Ohio to South Pasadena, California with her two daughters, Maybelle Caley Barker (1889-1967) and Hilda Caley Noble (1888 - 1972). Mary Davidson Caley was told to move to California from Ohio due to her health. The Caley's eventually settled in Sierra Madre in 1895 where William was the first Street Superintendent and Tax Collector. Maybelle Caley Barker married former Army Captain Clyde (Clinton) Barker (1889-1936) in 1918. Maybelle and Clinton did not have any children. When Clinton died (1936), Maybelle never remarried and remained in Sierra Madre. Hilda Caley Noble (1888 - 1972) married John Noble and their daughter Nadine Noble Sondergard (1928- 2008) married (1965) Ray Sondergard (1920-1998).\n\n \u003c/bioghist\u003e","\u003cbioghist altrender=\"Administrative History\" encodinganalog=\"545$b\"\u003e \u003chead\u003eAdministrative History:\u003c/head\u003e Mary Davidson Caley, (1861-1962) married (1887) William Paul Caley (1859-1943) and moved from Ohio to South Pasadena, California with her two daughters, Maybelle Caley Barker (1889-1967) and Hilda Caley Noble (1888 - 1972).  Mary Davidson Caley was told to move to California from Ohio due to her health.  The Caley's eventually settled in Sierra Madre in 1895 where William was the first Street Superintendent and Tax Collector. Maybelle Caley Barker married former Army Captain Clyde (Clinton) Barker (1889-1936) in 1918.  Maybelle and Clinton did not have any children. When Clinton died (1936), Maybelle never remarried and remained in Sierra Madre. Hilda Caley Noble (1888 - 1972) married John Noble and their daughter Nadine Noble Sondergard (1928- 2008) married (1965) Ray Sondergard (1920-1998).\n\n \u003c/bioghist\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMary Davidson Caley, (1861-1962) married (1887) William Paul Caley (1859-1943) and moved from Ohio to South Pasadena, California with her two daughters, Maybelle Caley Barker (1889-1967) and Hilda Caley Noble (1888 - 1972). Mary Davidson Caley was told to move to California from Ohio due to her health. The Caley's eventually settled in Sierra Madre in 1895 where William was the first Street Superintendent and Tax Collector. Maybelle Caley Barker married former Army Captain Clyde (Clinton) Barker (1889-1936) in 1918. Maybelle and Clinton did not have any children. When Clinton died (1936), Maybelle never remarried and remained in Sierra Madre. Hilda Caley Noble (1888 - 1972) married John Noble and their daughter Nadine Noble Sondergard (1928- 2008) married (1965) Ray Sondergard (1920-1998).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMary Davidson Caley, (1861-1962) married (1887) William Paul Caley (1859-1943) and moved from Ohio to South Pasadena, California with her two daughters, Maybelle Caley Barker (1889-1967) and Hilda Caley Noble (1888 - 1972).  Mary Davidson Caley was told to move to California from Ohio due to her health.  The Caley's eventually settled in Sierra Madre in 1895 where William was the first Street Superintendent and Tax Collector. Maybelle Caley Barker married former Army Captain Clyde (Clinton) Barker (1889-1936) in 1918.  Maybelle and Clinton did not have any children. When Clinton died (1936), Maybelle never remarried and remained in Sierra Madre. Hilda Caley Noble (1888 - 1972) married John Noble and their daughter Nadine Noble Sondergard (1928- 2008) married (1965) Ray Sondergard (1920-1998).\u003c/p\u003e"],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biographical / Historical","Administrative History:","Family History:","Administrative History:"],"bioghist_tesim":["  Mary Davidson Caley, (1861-1962) married (1887) William Paul Caley (1859-1943) and moved from Ohio to South Pasadena, California with her two daughters, Maybelle Caley Barker (1889-1967) and Hilda Caley Noble (1888 - 1972). Mary Davidson Caley was told to move to California from Ohio due to her health. The Caley's eventually settled in Sierra Madre in 1895 where William was the first Street Superintendent and Tax Collector. Maybelle Caley Barker married former Army Captain Clyde (Clinton) Barker (1889-1936) in 1918. Maybelle and Clinton did not have any children. When Clinton died (1936), Maybelle never remarried and remained in Sierra Madre. Hilda Caley Noble (1888 - 1972) married John Noble and their daughter Nadine Noble Sondergard (1928- 2008) married (1965) Ray Sondergard (1920-1998).\n\n ","Administrative History:  Mary Davidson Caley, (1861-1962) married (1887) William Paul Caley (1859-1943) and moved from Ohio to South Pasadena, California with her two daughters, Maybelle Caley Barker (1889-1967) and Hilda Caley Noble (1888 - 1972).  Mary Davidson Caley was told to move to California from Ohio due to her health.  The Caley's eventually settled in Sierra Madre in 1895 where William was the first Street Superintendent and Tax Collector. Maybelle Caley Barker married former Army Captain Clyde (Clinton) Barker (1889-1936) in 1918.  Maybelle and Clinton did not have any children. When Clinton died (1936), Maybelle never remarried and remained in Sierra Madre. Hilda Caley Noble (1888 - 1972) married John Noble and their daughter Nadine Noble Sondergard (1928- 2008) married (1965) Ray Sondergard (1920-1998).\n\n ","Mary Davidson Caley, (1861-1962) married (1887) William Paul Caley (1859-1943) and moved from Ohio to South Pasadena, California with her two daughters, Maybelle Caley Barker (1889-1967) and Hilda Caley Noble (1888 - 1972). Mary Davidson Caley was told to move to California from Ohio due to her health. The Caley's eventually settled in Sierra Madre in 1895 where William was the first Street Superintendent and Tax Collector. Maybelle Caley Barker married former Army Captain Clyde (Clinton) Barker (1889-1936) in 1918. Maybelle and Clinton did not have any children. When Clinton died (1936), Maybelle never remarried and remained in Sierra Madre. Hilda Caley Noble (1888 - 1972) married John Noble and their daughter Nadine Noble Sondergard (1928- 2008) married (1965) Ray Sondergard (1920-1998).","Mary Davidson Caley, (1861-1962) married (1887) William Paul Caley (1859-1943) and moved from Ohio to South Pasadena, California with her two daughters, Maybelle Caley Barker (1889-1967) and Hilda Caley Noble (1888 - 1972).  Mary Davidson Caley was told to move to California from Ohio due to her health.  The Caley's eventually settled in Sierra Madre in 1895 where William was the first Street Superintendent and Tax Collector. Maybelle Caley Barker married former Army Captain Clyde (Clinton) Barker (1889-1936) in 1918.  Maybelle and Clinton did not have any children. When Clinton died (1936), Maybelle never remarried and remained in Sierra Madre. Hilda Caley Noble (1888 - 1972) married John Noble and their daughter Nadine Noble Sondergard (1928- 2008) married (1965) Ray Sondergard (1920-1998)."],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eCaley Family Papers, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, at the College of William and Mary.\u003c/p\u003e"],"prefercite_tesim":["Caley Family Papers, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, at the College of William and Mary."],"relatedmaterial_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eArtifacts were transferred upon receipt to the Manuscripts Artifact Collection (Mss. 1.03): Green leather clutch with metal letters MC (2012.192.01) and pair of nylon white elbow length gloves (2012.192.02ab).\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Information about related materials is available at http://guides.swem.wm.edu/scrc-women\u003c/p\u003e"],"relatedmaterial_heading_ssm":["Related Materials:"],"relatedmaterial_tesim":["Artifacts were transferred upon receipt to the Manuscripts Artifact Collection (Mss. 1.03): Green leather clutch with metal letters MC (2012.192.01) and pair of nylon white elbow length gloves (2012.192.02ab)."," Information about related materials is available at http://guides.swem.wm.edu/scrc-women"],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe collection is mostly personal correspondence and diaries, chiefly 1895-1968, collected and written by Mary Davidson Caley, her two daughters, Maybelle Caley Barker and Hilda Caley Noble, and Hilda's daughter, Nadine Noble Sondergard. The Caley's were white middle class women who lived in Sierra Madre, California for the majority of their lives.  The personal letters and diaries of three generations of women contain topics related to the household operations, Spanish Flu 1918, farm operations in Ohio 1918, family finances, health concerns, local and national issues (Kennedy Assassination (1963), Watts Riots (1965) as well as social and religious activities.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Maybelle's, Hilda's and Nadine's diary entries and letters on Nadine and Ray Sondergard's courtship and early years together reflect the different perspectives of the women and their family interpersonal relationships and dynamics.  Nadine married late in life for the time (36 years old) and it was her husband Ray's (45 years old) second marriage. He had an uneven employment history. They had at least one son. The Caley women lived and traveled up and down the US northwest coast from California to Oregon and frequently visited Ohio for extended periods. The women's diaries span from 1951-1966 while the letters are from 1895-1968.  Mary Davidson Caley and Maybelle Caley Barker have a few individual diaries and notebooks from earlier years. Correspondence from over 80 friends and relatives of the Caley's addressed to the women is included as well as 87 photographs of family, friends and landscapes.  The correspondence is filed and organized by receipent rather than sender.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence included in the series was recieved by Mary Davidson Caley and William P. Caley. Correspondence is between Mary Davidson Caley, her two daughters Hilda Caley Noble and Maybelle Caley Barker and numerous friends along with several photographs of family, friends and landscapes scenes.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters about health issues, Christmas gifts in 1895, and fashions between family and friends.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePredominantly letters from brother-in-law, J.C. Caley concerning health of the family, business dealings, and letter from Maybelle Caley Barker on ship to Washington.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters between family and friends about health issues, costs of groceries, meals and dining, fashions, weather, work stories, and updates on status of old friends (sick or deceased) in Ohio. Letter about automobile ride that took three hours for 44 miles in Ohio (1917). Numerous letters from Maybelle Caley Barker to Mary Davidson Caley from trip to Ohio (1917).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters about health issues, costs of groceries, meals and dining, women's fashions, women's employment opportunties, weather, work stories, and updates on status of old friends (sick or deceased) from Maybelle Caley Barker and Hilda Caley Noble. Numerous letters from Hilda Caley Noble to Mary Davidson Caley during trip to Painesville, Ohio (1918).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWeekly letters from Maybelle Caley Barker and Hilda Caley Noble from Ohio about health issues (deaths from Spanish Flu outbreak), shopping, cost of groceries, meals and dining, fashion, weather, farm operations in Ohio, World War I Armistice Celebrations, women's employment, updates on status of old friends (sick or deceased), working with Red Cross, anti-Catholic feelings.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters to Mary Davidson Caley and William Paul Caley from Maybelle Caley Barker, Hilda Caley Noble and friends in Ohio about health issues, shopping, costs of groceries, meals and dining, fashions, weather, dating, finances, updates on status of family and friends (sick or deceased), and news of relative returning from World War I and his experience in the Argonne Forest.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters to Mary Davidson Caley and William Paul Caley from Maybelle Caley Barker, Hilda Caley Noble and friends in Ohio about health issues, farm operations (pigs dying of Cholera), housekeeping with new washing machine, shopping, costs of groceries, meals and dining, fashions, weather, dating, finances, updates on status of family and friends (sick or deceased), and Christmas shopping and presents\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters to Mary Davidson Caley and William Paul Caley from Maybelle Caley Barker, Hilda Caley Noble and friends in Ohio about health issues (Influenza Flu), farm operations (selling chickens and ducks), housekeeping, women employment, shopping, costs of groceries, meals and dining, fashions, weather, dating, finances, updates on status of family and friends, and going out for entertainment (movies and shows). Comments on Baptists, Methodists, Christian Scientists, and Jews interspersed throughout letters in sometimes less than flattering context.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters to Mary Davidson Caley and William Paul Caley from Maybelle Caley Barker, Hilda Caley Noble and friends in Ohio about health issues, farm operations housekeeping, women's employment, shopping, cost of groceries, meals and dining, fashions, weather, dating, finances, and updates on status of family and friends.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters to Mary Davidson Caley from Maybelle Caley Barker, Hilda Caley Noble and friends in Ohio about health issues, women's employment, shopping, costs of groceries, fashions, weather, social gossip, finances, and updates on status of family and friends. Letter from friend on trip through New Orleans, Biloxi, Panama Canal Zone and stops in Central America.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters to Mary Davidson Caley from Hilda Caley Noble in Mantua, Ohio and friends about health issues, children (Nadine Noble Sondergard), cost of groceries, weather, social gossip, finances, and updates on status of family and friends. Impact of Great Depression.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters to Mary Davidson Caley from Hilda Caley Noble in Mantua, Ohio and friends about health issues, children (Nadine Noble Sondergard), relations with in-laws, costs of groceries, weather, social gossip, finances, and updates on status of family and friends.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters to Mary Davidson Caley from family, cousins and friends about health issues, children, weather, social gossip, and updates on status of family and friends. Effects of Great Depression.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters to Mary Davidson Caley from Maybelle Caley Barker, Hilda Caley Noble, family, cousins and friends about health issues, children, weather, social gossip, updates on status of family and friends, death of family members, and social activities.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters to Mary Davidson Caley from Maybelle Caley Barker, Hilda Caley Noble family, cousins and friends about health issues, children, weather, social gossip, updates on status of family and friends, death of family members, and social activities. Long letter from friend about attendance at Missionary Conference in Camp Webster, Kansas in 1954 that reveals missionary activities in Sierra Leone Africa and New Mexico.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eUndated and loose pages of letters to Mary Davidson Caley from Maybelle Caley Barker, Hilda Caley Noble family, cousins and friends about health issues, children, weather, comments on World War I (dislike of Germans and reactions within social circles), social gossip, updates on status of family and friends, death of family members, and social activities.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePrinted materials: funeral announcements, newspaper articles on Senator Everett Colby (New Jersey), Republican primaries, crime, color prints pages from books, Practical Astrology magazine Gemini (June 1929), Isle of Man picture Calendar (1959), Magazine of World Manx Association, (June 1927), Oregon Schedule of Events (1967), Bonneville Dam brochure (1965).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePhotographs in family portrait settings including Mary Caley Davidson, William Paul Caley, Hilda Caley Noble, Maybelle Caley Barker, Nadine Noble Sondergard, Swans, Mame Veber.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTwo small diaries (6 cm x 14 cm)from American Bridge Company of New York. They belonged to Irving Dickinson (unknown relation to Caley) contain regular entries on weather observations, receipt of letters from family, and health issues.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSmall (6 x 10 cm) address book (Teepee and Painesville, Ohio cover), contains family birthdays and Christmas gifts from 1947-1948; small black diary (5 x 7.5 cm) 1948 with sporadic entry for January 1948 on social events and dinning out; small notebook(8 x 13 cm) (1922) containing entries on numerous flowers and vegetable planting, blooming and harvesting dates; small red notebook (8.5 x 10 cm) for Christmas gifts (1906); small (8 x 15 cm) red water damaged diary (1911/1912) from Maybelle Caley Barker containing short and long hand script of diary entries by day but not date.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePhotographs of people including: Dean Snyder,William Caley, John Vanderburg, M.L. Snedden, Elizabeth Turner, Warren Eugene Pennell (1929), Ruth Evely Pennell (1929), Mary Graham, Alberta and Frank Sheets, Stella Norris (1943), Frances Zigler (1943), Margie Meachum (1937), Diana Meachum (1937), Trent Meachum (1937), women in bathing suits (1930/1940/1950?); unknown people and scenery from the following locations: New York Harbor with Statute of Liberty (early 20th Century), Ford Model A, Palm Springs motel (1950s), Sutter Mill, California (1950s).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSpreadsheet of names generated from notes attached to letters when collection was processed along with some web research used in compiling the biographical information.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence included in the series was recieved by Maybelle Caley Barker. Correspondence is between Maybelle Caley Barker, her sister Hilda Caley Noble, her neice Nadine Noble Sondergard, and numerous friends. Nine diaries from the 1950s and 1960s along with one diary from 1915 are in the series. Several photographs of Maybelle Caley Barker with family and friends are also included.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters to Maybelle Caley Barker from Hilda Caley Noble, Nadine Noble Sondergard, family, cousins and friends about health issues, children, weather, social gossip, updates on status of family and friends, death of family members, social activities. Correspondence from Church activities, Prohibition activities (1914),World War II Home front activities in California (1942).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters to Maybelle Caley Barker from Hilda Caley Noble, Nadine Noble Sondergard, family, cousins and friends about health issues, mental illness, divorce, alcoholism, children, weather, social gossip, updates on status of family and friends, death of family members, and social activities. Letters from friend who moved back to Guadalajara, Mexico (1955 \u0026amp; 1957).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters to Maybelle Caley Barker from Hilda Caley Noble, family, cousins and friends about health issues, children, weather, social gossip, updates on status of family and friends, and death of family members. Trailer park living in 1963-1965, race relations, racism discussions from friends, and reactions to Marines going to Vietnam (1965).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters to Maybelle Caley Barker from Hilda Caley Noble and friends about health issues, weather, social gossip, updates on status of family and friends, and social activities. Complicated family relations between Nadine and Ray, race riots (1966), and crime.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters to Maybelle Caley Barker from friends about health issues, weather, social gossip, updates on status of family and friends, and social activities. Opposition to President Johnson and war in Vietnam.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters to Maybelle Caley Barker from friends about health issues, updates on status of family and friends, and social activities.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSchool notebook and diary (19 x 24 cm) brown, 1906-1907, writer was 17/18 years old. School notebook with short stories, school reports on Washington Irving, George Washington, exams for first part of book and diary entries interspersed through second part of the notebook along with loose leaf pages about daily activities, weather observations, homework, baking and cooking, and teachers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Diary (13.5 x 20 cm), red brick, 1915, (1920, 1921), partial and full page daily entries, on her activities in Sierra Madre, California; playing tennis, dancing lessons, Courtship with Harry Barker (future husband), sparse mention of local, national or world events(\"Lusitania sunk by Germans probably means war\"(8 May). Subjects also include holiday and birthday celebrations with gifts, weather observations, daily household operations, correspondence from family and friends, health issues, lunches and social activities, deaths of friends and family, and local travel. Appears as though diary may have been double used, edited or updated in 1916-1921; entries in pencil. Uses shorthand for some entries in diary for sensitive items or practicing,and some French language entries. No entries 18 July - 17 August, 20 AUG - 3 September, 6-21 November. Updates from 1920 and 1921 include family and friends updates on marriage and death. Comments written after reading in 1937 and 1959. Diary (14 x 19.5 cm) green, 1959, writer was 70 years old, partial and full page daily entries (except for vacation during September) on her activities; sparse mention of local, national or world events (disliked raising taxes-voted against school tax, local crimes, bus strike, meat-cutters strikes); weather observations, daily household operations, correspondence from family and friends, health issues of self and Nadine Noble Sondergard (\"invalid of the family\" (31 March), historical society business and tours, lunches and social activities, financial status, pets (dog Moo-Moo), holiday and birthday celebrations with gifts, deaths of friends and family, local travel, and contains genealogical information on last two pages.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiary (13.5 x 19.5 cm), black, 1951, writer was 62 years old, mainly partial and a few full page daily entries on her activities; sparse to no mention of local, national or world events. Subjects include holiday and birthday celebrations with gifts, weather observations, daily household operations, cooking and meals, correspondence from family and friends, lunches and social activities, financial transactions, deaths of friends and family, local travel and vacations. Diary (13.5 x 19.5 cm), red brick, 1952, writer was 63 years old, mainly partial and a few full page daily entries on her activities; sparse to no mention of local, national or world events; (President Eisenhower Nomination, 11 July, Eisenhower wins in landslide, 4 November. Subjects include holiday and birthday celebrations with gifts, weather observations, church activities, election board activities, daily household operations, cooking and meals, correspondence from family and friends, lunches and social activities, financial transactions (budget and list of bank assets in back of diary), deaths of friends and family, local travel, and vacations.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiary (13.5 x 19.5 cm) green, 1963, writer was 73/74 years old, mainly partial and a few full page daily entries on her activities; sparse to no mention of local, national or world events. President Kennedy's baby died (8-9 August) Billy Graham Revival at Olympic Stadium (20 August), President Kennedy assassination (22-25 November). subjects include holiday and birthday celebrations with gifts; weather observations, daily household operations, cooking and meals, correspondence from family and friends, lunches and social activities, historical society activities, pets (Moo-Moo), health issues (Nadine Noble Sondergard, Hilda Caley Noble), financial transactions, deaths of friends and family, local travel, and vacations. Diary (13.5 x 19.5 cm) brick red, 1964, writer was 74/75 years old, mainly partial and a few full page daily entries on her activities; sparse to no mention of local, national or world events;(Gen. Douglas MacArthur died age 84 \"he was beloved by all\", Voted for Goldwater on Election day (2 June). Subjects include holiday and birthday celebrations with gifts activities; weather observations, daily household operations, cooking and meals, correspondence from family and friends, lunches and social activities (bridge club), historical society activities, senior citizen activities, pets (Moo-Moo), Ray Sondergard and Nadine Noble Sondergard courtship (9 November-30 December), financial transactions, and deaths of friends and family.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiary (13.5 x 19.5 cm), olive green, 1965, writer was 75/76 years old, mainly partial and a few full page daily entries on her activities (week long stretches with no entries due to vacation and illnesses); sparse to no mention of local, national or world events; (Space walk with Ed White 3-7 June, \"Negroes rioting in in LA\", Watts Riots11-15 August. Subjects include holiday and birthday celebrations with gifts, weather observations, daily household operations, cooking and meals, correspondence from family and friends, lunches and social activities (bridge club, playing Canasta), historical society activities, social activities, Liberace concert (9 April), health issues, senior citizen activities, pets (Moo-Moo), church business, Ray Sondergard and Nadine Noble Sondergard courtship, Ray goes back to 1st wife (\"couldn't stand the TV dinners she (Nadine) served him,\" (29 Jul), financial transactions, deaths of friends and family, local travel, and vacations. Diary (13.5 x 19.5 cm), black, 1966, writer was 76/77 years old, mainly partial and a few full page daily entries on her activities (week or longer stretches with no entries due to vacation and increasing bouts of illnesses); sparse to no mention of local, national or world events \"Conditions bad in Vietnam against USA\" (8 April), Riot in Watts (18 May), Reagan won primary (8 June), memories of father (13 June), \"Republican's had big victory\" (8 November). Subjects include holiday and birthday celebrations with gifts, weather observations, daily household operations, cooking and meals, correspondence from family and friends, lunches and social activities (bridge club, playing Canasta), historical society activities, health issues (self, Ray) senior citizen activities, pets (Moo-Moo died,1 October, misses \"so much\"), church business, Ray Sondergard and Nadine Noble Sondergard renewed courtship, Ray quitting jobs, marriage (15 April), Ray ill and can't/won't work (26 August), financial transactions, and deaths of friends and family.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePhotographs in family portrait settings of Maybelle Caley Barker with Marian Shaw, Mattie Spencer, Marian Brant, Gertrude Seaman, (Maybelle as child in 1895).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence included in the series was recieved by Hilda Caley Noble. Correspondence is between her daughter, Nadine Noble Sondergard, her sister, Maybelle Caley Barker, and numerous friends. Ten diaries from the 1950s and 1960s with daily full page entries are in the series. Photographs of Hilda Caley Noble with family and friends are also included.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters to Hilda Caley Noble from Maybelle Caley Barker, Nadine Noble Sondergard and friends about health issues, weather, updates on status of family and friends, and social activities. Title for House in Sierra Madre, California.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters to Hilda Caley Noble from Maybelle Caley Barker and friends about health issues, updates on status of family and friends, social activities, taxes, crime, pets, and cooking.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters to Hilda Caley Noble from Nadine Noble Sondergard, Maybelle Caley Barker, and Ray Sondergard on Nadine's Honeymoon and establishing new household, updates on status of family and friends, social activities, and Ray Sondergard's employment.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters to Hilda Caley Noble from Nadine Noble Sondergard and Ray Sondergard on establishing new household, cooking, social activities and Ray Sondergard's employment, illness, and firing.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters to Hilda Caley Noble from Nadine Noble Sondergard on establishing new household, cooking, social activities, Ray Sondergard's new employment, illness and moving to new house.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters to Hilda Caley Noble from Nadine Noble Sondergard on running household, cooking, social activities, travels, family health issues and sympathy cards from friends on Maybelle Caley Barker.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters to Hilda Caley Noble from Nadine Noble Sondergard on running household, cooking, social activities, travels, family health issues and sympathy cards from friends on Maybelle Caley Barker's death and Nadine's pregnancy.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters to Hilda Caley Noble from Nadine Noble Sondergard on running household, child rearing, cooking, social activities, travels, family health issues (cancer death of mother-in-law), Ray Sondergard looking for employment, and friends on health issues, weather, social gossip, and updates on status of family and friends.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters to Hilda Caley Noble from Nadine Noble Sondergard child health issues, cooking, social activities, travels, family health issues, and concern about weight gain. Ray Sondergard going on welfare due to illness, friends on health issues, weather, social gossip, and updates on status of family and friends.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiary (13.5 x 19.5), red brick, 1954, writer was 65/66 years old, full page daily entries on her activities along with notes on Maybelle Caley Barkers and Nadine Noble Sondergard activities with little to no recording of how author felt about them; no mention of local, national or world events except 1954 World Series between Cleveland Indians and New York Giants, some mention of television shows. Subjects also include holiday and birthday celebrations with gifts, weather observations, daily household operations, correspondence and telephone calls from family and friends, health issues of self and mother (Mary Davidson Caley who lives with them), church attendance, shopping, cooking, division of chores within the household, lunches and social activities, financial status, other families' weddings, and holiday and birthday celebrations with gifts. Hilda Caley Noble liked to doodle in the margins.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiary (13.5 x 19.5 cm), red, 1956, writer was 67/68 years old, full page daily entries on her activities along with notes on Maybelle Caley Barkers and Nadine Noble Sondergard activities with little to no recording of how author felt about them; sporadic mention of local, national or world events such as earthquakes, train wrecks, fires, H Bomb detonation (17 May), bomb explosion at bus station (7 June), President Eisenhower heart attack (8-9, 11 Jun), ship collision (26 July); Canasta parties, regular mention of television shows ($64,000 Question). Subjects include holiday and birthday celebrations with gifts, weather observations, daily household operations, correspondence and telephone calls from family and friends, health issues of self and mother (Mary Davidson Caley who lives with them), church attendance, Nadine Noble Sondergard and bible school, shopping, cooking, supper menus, division of chores within the household, lunches and social activities, financial status, pets (birds) other families' weddings, holiday and birthday celebrations with gifts, deaths of friends and family, and local travel. Hilda Caley Noble liked to doodle on the margins and use different color inks including green, purple, blue, red, black. Diary (13.5 x 19.5 cm), brick red, 1957, writer was 68/69 years old, full page daily entries on her activities along with notes on Maybelle Caley Barkers and Nadine Noble Sondergard activities with little to no recording of how author felt about them; sporadic mention of local, national or world events (President Eisenhower inauguration (21 January), Ku Klux Klan cross burning (9 February), President Eisenhower's stroke (26-27 November). Subjects also include holiday and birthday celebrations with gifts, weather observations, daily household operations, regular mention of television shows, correspondence and telephone calls from family and friends, health issues of self and Nadine Noble Sondergard, church attendance, Nadine Noble Sondergard and bible school, shopping at the Safeway grocery store, cooking, supper menus, division of chores within the household, lunches and social activities, financial status, pets, other families weddings, historical society business and tours, deaths of friends and family, and local travel. Hilda Caley Noble liked to doodle in the margins and used different color inks including green, purple, blue, red, black.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiary (9.5 x 13.5 cm), maroon, 1958, writer was 69/70 years old, full page daily entries on her activities along with notes on Maybelle Caley Barker's and Nadine Noble Sondergard's activities with little to no recording of how author felt about them; sparse mention of local, national or world events, regular mention of television shows. Subjects also include holiday and birthday celebrations with gifts activities; weather observations, daily household operations, correspondence from family and friends, health issues of self and Nadine Noble Sondergard, church attendance, Nadine Noble Sondergard and bible school, shopping at the Safeway grocery store, cooking, supper menus, division of chores within the household, lunches and social activities, financial status, pets (birds \u0026amp; cat), other families' weddings, holiday and birthday celebrations with gifts, deaths of friends and family, and local travel. Hilda Caley Noble liked to doodle in the margins.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiary (13.5 x 19.5 cm), red, 1960, writer was 71/72 Years old, full page daily entries on her activities along with notes on Maybelle Caley Barker's and Nadine Noble Sondergard's activities with little to no recording of how author felt about them; sparse mention of local, national or world events: President Eisenhower coming to Los Angeles, California (27 January), Eisenhower's South American Trip (22 February), and earthquakes. Subjects also include holiday and birthday celebrations with gifts activities; weather observations, daily household operations, correspondence from family and friends, health issues of self (1st \u0026amp; 2nd surgical operations 21 \u0026amp; 29 Sepember ) writes about \"very important election between Mr. Kennedy \u0026amp; Mr. Nixon for President\" and Maybelle's work with precinct and vote tallies (8 November), mother (Mary Davidson Caley) and Nadine Noble Sondergard (colitis), church attendance, cooking, supper menus, division of chores within the household, lunches and social activities, financial transactions, pets (dog-Moo-Moo), and deaths of friends and family. Diary (13.5 x 19.5 cm), olive green, 1962, writer was 73/74 years old, full page daily entries on her activities along with notes on Maybelle Caley Barker's and Nadine Noble Sondergard's activities with little to no recording of how author felt about them; sparse mention of local, national or world events: (Cuban Missile Crisis (22 October-02 November) grocery stores empty, stocking up on food, war at any time, ships and blockade, dismantling bases in Cuba ). Subjects also include mother's death (Mary Davidson Caley) (23 January), church attendance, cooking, supper menus, division of chores within the household, lunches and social activities, financial transactions, pets (dog Moo-Moo), holiday and birthday celebrations with gifts, and deaths of friends and family.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Diary (13.5 x 19.5 cm), red, 1963, writer was 74/75 Years old, full page daily entries on her activities along with notes on Maybelle Caley Barkers and Nadine Noble Sondergard activities with little to no recording of how author felt about them; sparse mention of local, national or world events (President Kennedy leaving for Europe (22 June), \"Negroes picketing in Los Angeles\", Pope Paul VI (24 June), Forest fires and Earthquakes, President Kennedy baby death (9-10 August 13), Billy Graham crusade (20 August), President Kennedy assassination and President Johnson new president (22-25 November). Subjects also include church attendance, cooking, supper menus, division of chores within the household, lunches and social activities (playing canasta, Senior Citizen meetings), financial transactions, budgets, health issues of Nadine Noble Sondergard and herself (fall), pets (dog Moo-Moo), holiday and birthday celebrations with gifts, and deaths of friends and family, watching TV on colored set, notes on TV actors death, TV Shows: Ed Sullivan, Lawrence Welk, Hazel, Lassie, Petticoat Junction, and TV being broke is problem (January)(June). Diary (13.5 x 19.5 cm), white,1964, writer was 75/76 years old, full page daily entries on her activities along with notes on Maybelle Caley Barkers and Nadine Noble Sondergard activities with little to no recording of how author felt about them; sparse mention of local, national or world events (Alaska earthquake (27 March), bus strike (June), Mexico City earthquake (6 July), forest fire (24 September). Entires also include church attendance, supper menus, lunches, and social activities. (playing Canasta, senior citizen meetings, Historical Association, Disneyland visit (7 October), 1st mention of Ray Sondergard (7 October), vacation in Long Beach, California (October), Ray and Nadine's courtship, Ray proposed to Nadine (21 November), financial transactions, budgets, health issues of Nadine Noble Sondergard, pets (dog Moo-Moo), holiday and birthday celebrations with gifts, weather observations, and deaths of friends and family. TV shows include Petticoat Junction, Beverly Hillbillies, Hazel, Lawrence Welk, Republican convention with Goldwater (13-17 July), Dick Van Dyke, Lassie, Candid Camera, Election coverage (3 November),\"Johnson won by a landside\".\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Diary (13.5 x 19.5 cm), red, 1965, writer was 76/77 years old, full page daily entries on her activities along with notes on Maybelle Caley Barkers, Nadine Noble Sondergard and Ray Sondergard activities with little recording of how author felt about them except for Ray Sondergard; sparse mention of local, national or world events. Winston Churchill funeral (30 January), earthquake in Seattle (29 April), Ray and Nadine's courtship, on and off engagement, Hilda's dislike of Ray (\"I am afraid he will never amount to anything as he will not work only a short time then gives up\" )(10 June), Ray goes back to first wife (28 July). Ray leaves wife and back in Long Beach and contacts Nadine (6 December), Sierra Madre earthquake (16 July), riot in Los Angeles with \"colored people in Watts\", National Guard sent in, curfew in Los Angeles, riot in Pasadena, CA (12-17 August), blackout in northeastern US and Canada (9 November). Also includes holiday and birthday celebrations with gifts, playing Canasta, pets (dog Moo-Moo), weather observations, and deaths of friends and family and TV shows include Lawrence Welk, Petticoat Junction, Ed Sullivan. Diary (13.5 x 19.5 cm), black, 1966, writer was 77/78 years old, full page daily entries on her activities along with notes on Maybelle Caley Barkers, Nadine Noble Sondergard and Ray Sondergard activities with little recording of how author felt about them. Subjects include Ray and Nadine's courtship ( Ray and Nadine date again (21 January), secretly married in Las Vegas (27 January) but Hilda didn't \"know about it until after Easter\" (11 April), honeymoon trip to Portland, Oregon (15-26 April), Nadine and Ray move to Salem, Ray losing jobs, sparse mention of local, national or world events, holiday and birthday celebrations with gifts, playing Canasta, pets (dog Moo-Moo), health issues (Ray Sondergard, Maybelle Caley Barker), weather observations, and deaths of friends and family and TV shows include Lassie, My Favorite Martian, and Ed Sullivan.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePhotographs in family portrait settings of Hilda Caley Noble with Nadine Noble Sondergard and family members.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence included in the series was recieved by Nadine Noble Sondergard. Correspondence is between her mother, Hilda Caley Noble, her aunt, Maybelle Caley Barker, and friends. Four diaries from the 1950s and 1960s are also in the series.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiary (13 x 19 cm), spiral bound, brown, 1952, writer was 22 years old. Entries about weather, daily activities, church attendance, social calls (visits) after church, Hilda Caley Nobel and Abba/Aunt Belle (Maybelle Caley Barker), smog, health issues, social activities such as teas, women's club luncheons, vacation to Long Beach, California (October), writes about seeing Richard Nixon and family (31 October).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Diary (15 x 21 cm), red, 1963 writer was 34/35 years old. Daily entries with breaks of over week after late April: on dating ex-boyfriends: Sam Brown, Frank Camden, Bill, Ward ?, John Snapp (2 months, and Stanley Kelley (2 dates/2 weeks) of which she notes the dates she met and broke up and why, very emotional and intense, relations with mother, holiday and birthday celebrations with gifts, worried about weight, health of mother (Cancer?), she is constantly ill, church attendance and Sunday school teaching, conflict with Mother (attributes it multiple times to cancer returning), dislike of \"Abba\"(Maybelle Caley Barker) (cheap, inconsiderate), multiple day entries on John F. Kennedy's assassination and funeral. Diary (13 x 19.5 cm), green, 1964, writer was 35/36 years old. Almost daily entries include mother's health (76 yrs old), concerns about weight, personal health, flu, weather observations, church attendance, division of chores within the household,and driving test (passed written driving test at 34 yrs old but cancelled driving lessons after a number of lessons because she was too nervous, but started back up). Meets future husband (Ray) in September. No entries for three weeks until they are dating in late October then followed by daily very personal entries on status of courtship for a 35 year old never married, virgin female and a recovering, male alcoholic with an ex-wife and three children.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiary (14 x 19.5 cm), red, 1966, writer was 37/38 years old: sporadic entries. January 1-24, 1966 are torn out. Ray Sondergard and Nadine Noble Caley went to Las Vegas and got married on 26 January 1966, but did not inform anyone. She continues to live at home, thinks she may be pregnant, still has dates with Ray for drives, and longs for house together. 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The Caley's were white middle class women who lived in Sierra Madre, California for the majority of their lives.  The personal letters and diaries of three generations of women contain topics related to the household operations, Spanish Flu 1918, farm operations in Ohio 1918, family finances, health concerns, local and national issues (Kennedy Assassination (1963), Watts Riots (1965) as well as social and religious activities."," Maybelle's, Hilda's and Nadine's diary entries and letters on Nadine and Ray Sondergard's courtship and early years together reflect the different perspectives of the women and their family interpersonal relationships and dynamics.  Nadine married late in life for the time (36 years old) and it was her husband Ray's (45 years old) second marriage. He had an uneven employment history. They had at least one son. The Caley women lived and traveled up and down the US northwest coast from California to Oregon and frequently visited Ohio for extended periods. The women's diaries span from 1951-1966 while the letters are from 1895-1968.  Mary Davidson Caley and Maybelle Caley Barker have a few individual diaries and notebooks from earlier years. Correspondence from over 80 friends and relatives of the Caley's addressed to the women is included as well as 87 photographs of family, friends and landscapes.  The correspondence is filed and organized by receipent rather than sender.","Correspondence included in the series was recieved by Mary Davidson Caley and William P. Caley. Correspondence is between Mary Davidson Caley, her two daughters Hilda Caley Noble and Maybelle Caley Barker and numerous friends along with several photographs of family, friends and landscapes scenes.","Letters about health issues, Christmas gifts in 1895, and fashions between family and friends.","Predominantly letters from brother-in-law, J.C. Caley concerning health of the family, business dealings, and letter from Maybelle Caley Barker on ship to Washington.","Letters between family and friends about health issues, costs of groceries, meals and dining, fashions, weather, work stories, and updates on status of old friends (sick or deceased) in Ohio. Letter about automobile ride that took three hours for 44 miles in Ohio (1917). Numerous letters from Maybelle Caley Barker to Mary Davidson Caley from trip to Ohio (1917).","Letters about health issues, costs of groceries, meals and dining, women's fashions, women's employment opportunties, weather, work stories, and updates on status of old friends (sick or deceased) from Maybelle Caley Barker and Hilda Caley Noble. Numerous letters from Hilda Caley Noble to Mary Davidson Caley during trip to Painesville, Ohio (1918).","Weekly letters from Maybelle Caley Barker and Hilda Caley Noble from Ohio about health issues (deaths from Spanish Flu outbreak), shopping, cost of groceries, meals and dining, fashion, weather, farm operations in Ohio, World War I Armistice Celebrations, women's employment, updates on status of old friends (sick or deceased), working with Red Cross, anti-Catholic feelings.","Letters to Mary Davidson Caley and William Paul Caley from Maybelle Caley Barker, Hilda Caley Noble and friends in Ohio about health issues, shopping, costs of groceries, meals and dining, fashions, weather, dating, finances, updates on status of family and friends (sick or deceased), and news of relative returning from World War I and his experience in the Argonne Forest.","Letters to Mary Davidson Caley and William Paul Caley from Maybelle Caley Barker, Hilda Caley Noble and friends in Ohio about health issues, farm operations (pigs dying of Cholera), housekeeping with new washing machine, shopping, costs of groceries, meals and dining, fashions, weather, dating, finances, updates on status of family and friends (sick or deceased), and Christmas shopping and presents","Letters to Mary Davidson Caley and William Paul Caley from Maybelle Caley Barker, Hilda Caley Noble and friends in Ohio about health issues (Influenza Flu), farm operations (selling chickens and ducks), housekeeping, women employment, shopping, costs of groceries, meals and dining, fashions, weather, dating, finances, updates on status of family and friends, and going out for entertainment (movies and shows). Comments on Baptists, Methodists, Christian Scientists, and Jews interspersed throughout letters in sometimes less than flattering context.","Letters to Mary Davidson Caley and William Paul Caley from Maybelle Caley Barker, Hilda Caley Noble and friends in Ohio about health issues, farm operations housekeeping, women's employment, shopping, cost of groceries, meals and dining, fashions, weather, dating, finances, and updates on status of family and friends.","Letters to Mary Davidson Caley from Maybelle Caley Barker, Hilda Caley Noble and friends in Ohio about health issues, women's employment, shopping, costs of groceries, fashions, weather, social gossip, finances, and updates on status of family and friends. Letter from friend on trip through New Orleans, Biloxi, Panama Canal Zone and stops in Central America.","Letters to Mary Davidson Caley from Hilda Caley Noble in Mantua, Ohio and friends about health issues, children (Nadine Noble Sondergard), cost of groceries, weather, social gossip, finances, and updates on status of family and friends. Impact of Great Depression.","Letters to Mary Davidson Caley from Hilda Caley Noble in Mantua, Ohio and friends about health issues, children (Nadine Noble Sondergard), relations with in-laws, costs of groceries, weather, social gossip, finances, and updates on status of family and friends.","Letters to Mary Davidson Caley from family, cousins and friends about health issues, children, weather, social gossip, and updates on status of family and friends. Effects of Great Depression.","Letters to Mary Davidson Caley from Maybelle Caley Barker, Hilda Caley Noble, family, cousins and friends about health issues, children, weather, social gossip, updates on status of family and friends, death of family members, and social activities.","Letters to Mary Davidson Caley from Maybelle Caley Barker, Hilda Caley Noble family, cousins and friends about health issues, children, weather, social gossip, updates on status of family and friends, death of family members, and social activities. Long letter from friend about attendance at Missionary Conference in Camp Webster, Kansas in 1954 that reveals missionary activities in Sierra Leone Africa and New Mexico.","Undated and loose pages of letters to Mary Davidson Caley from Maybelle Caley Barker, Hilda Caley Noble family, cousins and friends about health issues, children, weather, comments on World War I (dislike of Germans and reactions within social circles), social gossip, updates on status of family and friends, death of family members, and social activities.","Printed materials: funeral announcements, newspaper articles on Senator Everett Colby (New Jersey), Republican primaries, crime, color prints pages from books, Practical Astrology magazine Gemini (June 1929), Isle of Man picture Calendar (1959), Magazine of World Manx Association, (June 1927), Oregon Schedule of Events (1967), Bonneville Dam brochure (1965).","Photographs in family portrait settings including Mary Caley Davidson, William Paul Caley, Hilda Caley Noble, Maybelle Caley Barker, Nadine Noble Sondergard, Swans, Mame Veber.","Two small diaries (6 cm x 14 cm)from American Bridge Company of New York. They belonged to Irving Dickinson (unknown relation to Caley) contain regular entries on weather observations, receipt of letters from family, and health issues.","Small (6 x 10 cm) address book (Teepee and Painesville, Ohio cover), contains family birthdays and Christmas gifts from 1947-1948; small black diary (5 x 7.5 cm) 1948 with sporadic entry for January 1948 on social events and dinning out; small notebook(8 x 13 cm) (1922) containing entries on numerous flowers and vegetable planting, blooming and harvesting dates; small red notebook (8.5 x 10 cm) for Christmas gifts (1906); small (8 x 15 cm) red water damaged diary (1911/1912) from Maybelle Caley Barker containing short and long hand script of diary entries by day but not date.","Photographs of people including: Dean Snyder,William Caley, John Vanderburg, M.L. Snedden, Elizabeth Turner, Warren Eugene Pennell (1929), Ruth Evely Pennell (1929), Mary Graham, Alberta and Frank Sheets, Stella Norris (1943), Frances Zigler (1943), Margie Meachum (1937), Diana Meachum (1937), Trent Meachum (1937), women in bathing suits (1930/1940/1950?); unknown people and scenery from the following locations: New York Harbor with Statute of Liberty (early 20th Century), Ford Model A, Palm Springs motel (1950s), Sutter Mill, California (1950s).","Spreadsheet of names generated from notes attached to letters when collection was processed along with some web research used in compiling the biographical information.","Correspondence included in the series was recieved by Maybelle Caley Barker. Correspondence is between Maybelle Caley Barker, her sister Hilda Caley Noble, her neice Nadine Noble Sondergard, and numerous friends. Nine diaries from the 1950s and 1960s along with one diary from 1915 are in the series. Several photographs of Maybelle Caley Barker with family and friends are also included.","Letters to Maybelle Caley Barker from Hilda Caley Noble, Nadine Noble Sondergard, family, cousins and friends about health issues, children, weather, social gossip, updates on status of family and friends, death of family members, social activities. Correspondence from Church activities, Prohibition activities (1914),World War II Home front activities in California (1942).","Letters to Maybelle Caley Barker from Hilda Caley Noble, Nadine Noble Sondergard, family, cousins and friends about health issues, mental illness, divorce, alcoholism, children, weather, social gossip, updates on status of family and friends, death of family members, and social activities. Letters from friend who moved back to Guadalajara, Mexico (1955 \u0026 1957).","Letters to Maybelle Caley Barker from Hilda Caley Noble, family, cousins and friends about health issues, children, weather, social gossip, updates on status of family and friends, and death of family members. Trailer park living in 1963-1965, race relations, racism discussions from friends, and reactions to Marines going to Vietnam (1965).","Letters to Maybelle Caley Barker from Hilda Caley Noble and friends about health issues, weather, social gossip, updates on status of family and friends, and social activities. Complicated family relations between Nadine and Ray, race riots (1966), and crime.","Letters to Maybelle Caley Barker from friends about health issues, weather, social gossip, updates on status of family and friends, and social activities. Opposition to President Johnson and war in Vietnam.","Letters to Maybelle Caley Barker from friends about health issues, updates on status of family and friends, and social activities.","School notebook and diary (19 x 24 cm) brown, 1906-1907, writer was 17/18 years old. School notebook with short stories, school reports on Washington Irving, George Washington, exams for first part of book and diary entries interspersed through second part of the notebook along with loose leaf pages about daily activities, weather observations, homework, baking and cooking, and teachers.","Scope and Contents Diary (13.5 x 20 cm), red brick, 1915, (1920, 1921), partial and full page daily entries, on her activities in Sierra Madre, California; playing tennis, dancing lessons, Courtship with Harry Barker (future husband), sparse mention of local, national or world events(\"Lusitania sunk by Germans probably means war\"(8 May). Subjects also include holiday and birthday celebrations with gifts, weather observations, daily household operations, correspondence from family and friends, health issues, lunches and social activities, deaths of friends and family, and local travel. Appears as though diary may have been double used, edited or updated in 1916-1921; entries in pencil. Uses shorthand for some entries in diary for sensitive items or practicing,and some French language entries. No entries 18 July - 17 August, 20 AUG - 3 September, 6-21 November. Updates from 1920 and 1921 include family and friends updates on marriage and death. Comments written after reading in 1937 and 1959. Diary (14 x 19.5 cm) green, 1959, writer was 70 years old, partial and full page daily entries (except for vacation during September) on her activities; sparse mention of local, national or world events (disliked raising taxes-voted against school tax, local crimes, bus strike, meat-cutters strikes); weather observations, daily household operations, correspondence from family and friends, health issues of self and Nadine Noble Sondergard (\"invalid of the family\" (31 March), historical society business and tours, lunches and social activities, financial status, pets (dog Moo-Moo), holiday and birthday celebrations with gifts, deaths of friends and family, local travel, and contains genealogical information on last two pages.","Diary (13.5 x 19.5 cm), black, 1951, writer was 62 years old, mainly partial and a few full page daily entries on her activities; sparse to no mention of local, national or world events. Subjects include holiday and birthday celebrations with gifts, weather observations, daily household operations, cooking and meals, correspondence from family and friends, lunches and social activities, financial transactions, deaths of friends and family, local travel and vacations. Diary (13.5 x 19.5 cm), red brick, 1952, writer was 63 years old, mainly partial and a few full page daily entries on her activities; sparse to no mention of local, national or world events; (President Eisenhower Nomination, 11 July, Eisenhower wins in landslide, 4 November. Subjects include holiday and birthday celebrations with gifts, weather observations, church activities, election board activities, daily household operations, cooking and meals, correspondence from family and friends, lunches and social activities, financial transactions (budget and list of bank assets in back of diary), deaths of friends and family, local travel, and vacations.","Diary (13.5 x 19.5 cm) green, 1963, writer was 73/74 years old, mainly partial and a few full page daily entries on her activities; sparse to no mention of local, national or world events. President Kennedy's baby died (8-9 August) Billy Graham Revival at Olympic Stadium (20 August), President Kennedy assassination (22-25 November). subjects include holiday and birthday celebrations with gifts; weather observations, daily household operations, cooking and meals, correspondence from family and friends, lunches and social activities, historical society activities, pets (Moo-Moo), health issues (Nadine Noble Sondergard, Hilda Caley Noble), financial transactions, deaths of friends and family, local travel, and vacations. Diary (13.5 x 19.5 cm) brick red, 1964, writer was 74/75 years old, mainly partial and a few full page daily entries on her activities; sparse to no mention of local, national or world events;(Gen. Douglas MacArthur died age 84 \"he was beloved by all\", Voted for Goldwater on Election day (2 June). Subjects include holiday and birthday celebrations with gifts activities; weather observations, daily household operations, cooking and meals, correspondence from family and friends, lunches and social activities (bridge club), historical society activities, senior citizen activities, pets (Moo-Moo), Ray Sondergard and Nadine Noble Sondergard courtship (9 November-30 December), financial transactions, and deaths of friends and family.","Diary (13.5 x 19.5 cm), olive green, 1965, writer was 75/76 years old, mainly partial and a few full page daily entries on her activities (week long stretches with no entries due to vacation and illnesses); sparse to no mention of local, national or world events; (Space walk with Ed White 3-7 June, \"Negroes rioting in in LA\", Watts Riots11-15 August. Subjects include holiday and birthday celebrations with gifts, weather observations, daily household operations, cooking and meals, correspondence from family and friends, lunches and social activities (bridge club, playing Canasta), historical society activities, social activities, Liberace concert (9 April), health issues, senior citizen activities, pets (Moo-Moo), church business, Ray Sondergard and Nadine Noble Sondergard courtship, Ray goes back to 1st wife (\"couldn't stand the TV dinners she (Nadine) served him,\" (29 Jul), financial transactions, deaths of friends and family, local travel, and vacations. Diary (13.5 x 19.5 cm), black, 1966, writer was 76/77 years old, mainly partial and a few full page daily entries on her activities (week or longer stretches with no entries due to vacation and increasing bouts of illnesses); sparse to no mention of local, national or world events \"Conditions bad in Vietnam against USA\" (8 April), Riot in Watts (18 May), Reagan won primary (8 June), memories of father (13 June), \"Republican's had big victory\" (8 November). Subjects include holiday and birthday celebrations with gifts, weather observations, daily household operations, cooking and meals, correspondence from family and friends, lunches and social activities (bridge club, playing Canasta), historical society activities, health issues (self, Ray) senior citizen activities, pets (Moo-Moo died,1 October, misses \"so much\"), church business, Ray Sondergard and Nadine Noble Sondergard renewed courtship, Ray quitting jobs, marriage (15 April), Ray ill and can't/won't work (26 August), financial transactions, and deaths of friends and family.","Photographs in family portrait settings of Maybelle Caley Barker with Marian Shaw, Mattie Spencer, Marian Brant, Gertrude Seaman, (Maybelle as child in 1895).","Correspondence included in the series was recieved by Hilda Caley Noble. Correspondence is between her daughter, Nadine Noble Sondergard, her sister, Maybelle Caley Barker, and numerous friends. Ten diaries from the 1950s and 1960s with daily full page entries are in the series. Photographs of Hilda Caley Noble with family and friends are also included.","Letters to Hilda Caley Noble from Maybelle Caley Barker, Nadine Noble Sondergard and friends about health issues, weather, updates on status of family and friends, and social activities. Title for House in Sierra Madre, California.","Letters to Hilda Caley Noble from Maybelle Caley Barker and friends about health issues, updates on status of family and friends, social activities, taxes, crime, pets, and cooking.","Letters to Hilda Caley Noble from Nadine Noble Sondergard, Maybelle Caley Barker, and Ray Sondergard on Nadine's Honeymoon and establishing new household, updates on status of family and friends, social activities, and Ray Sondergard's employment.","Letters to Hilda Caley Noble from Nadine Noble Sondergard and Ray Sondergard on establishing new household, cooking, social activities and Ray Sondergard's employment, illness, and firing.","Letters to Hilda Caley Noble from Nadine Noble Sondergard on establishing new household, cooking, social activities, Ray Sondergard's new employment, illness and moving to new house.","Letters to Hilda Caley Noble from Nadine Noble Sondergard on running household, cooking, social activities, travels, family health issues and sympathy cards from friends on Maybelle Caley Barker.","Letters to Hilda Caley Noble from Nadine Noble Sondergard on running household, cooking, social activities, travels, family health issues and sympathy cards from friends on Maybelle Caley Barker's death and Nadine's pregnancy.","Letters to Hilda Caley Noble from Nadine Noble Sondergard on running household, child rearing, cooking, social activities, travels, family health issues (cancer death of mother-in-law), Ray Sondergard looking for employment, and friends on health issues, weather, social gossip, and updates on status of family and friends.","Letters to Hilda Caley Noble from Nadine Noble Sondergard child health issues, cooking, social activities, travels, family health issues, and concern about weight gain. Ray Sondergard going on welfare due to illness, friends on health issues, weather, social gossip, and updates on status of family and friends.","Diary (13.5 x 19.5), red brick, 1954, writer was 65/66 years old, full page daily entries on her activities along with notes on Maybelle Caley Barkers and Nadine Noble Sondergard activities with little to no recording of how author felt about them; no mention of local, national or world events except 1954 World Series between Cleveland Indians and New York Giants, some mention of television shows. Subjects also include holiday and birthday celebrations with gifts, weather observations, daily household operations, correspondence and telephone calls from family and friends, health issues of self and mother (Mary Davidson Caley who lives with them), church attendance, shopping, cooking, division of chores within the household, lunches and social activities, financial status, other families' weddings, and holiday and birthday celebrations with gifts. Hilda Caley Noble liked to doodle in the margins.","Diary (13.5 x 19.5 cm), red, 1956, writer was 67/68 years old, full page daily entries on her activities along with notes on Maybelle Caley Barkers and Nadine Noble Sondergard activities with little to no recording of how author felt about them; sporadic mention of local, national or world events such as earthquakes, train wrecks, fires, H Bomb detonation (17 May), bomb explosion at bus station (7 June), President Eisenhower heart attack (8-9, 11 Jun), ship collision (26 July); Canasta parties, regular mention of television shows ($64,000 Question). Subjects include holiday and birthday celebrations with gifts, weather observations, daily household operations, correspondence and telephone calls from family and friends, health issues of self and mother (Mary Davidson Caley who lives with them), church attendance, Nadine Noble Sondergard and bible school, shopping, cooking, supper menus, division of chores within the household, lunches and social activities, financial status, pets (birds) other families' weddings, holiday and birthday celebrations with gifts, deaths of friends and family, and local travel. Hilda Caley Noble liked to doodle on the margins and use different color inks including green, purple, blue, red, black. Diary (13.5 x 19.5 cm), brick red, 1957, writer was 68/69 years old, full page daily entries on her activities along with notes on Maybelle Caley Barkers and Nadine Noble Sondergard activities with little to no recording of how author felt about them; sporadic mention of local, national or world events (President Eisenhower inauguration (21 January), Ku Klux Klan cross burning (9 February), President Eisenhower's stroke (26-27 November). Subjects also include holiday and birthday celebrations with gifts, weather observations, daily household operations, regular mention of television shows, correspondence and telephone calls from family and friends, health issues of self and Nadine Noble Sondergard, church attendance, Nadine Noble Sondergard and bible school, shopping at the Safeway grocery store, cooking, supper menus, division of chores within the household, lunches and social activities, financial status, pets, other families weddings, historical society business and tours, deaths of friends and family, and local travel. Hilda Caley Noble liked to doodle in the margins and used different color inks including green, purple, blue, red, black.","Diary (9.5 x 13.5 cm), maroon, 1958, writer was 69/70 years old, full page daily entries on her activities along with notes on Maybelle Caley Barker's and Nadine Noble Sondergard's activities with little to no recording of how author felt about them; sparse mention of local, national or world events, regular mention of television shows. Subjects also include holiday and birthday celebrations with gifts activities; weather observations, daily household operations, correspondence from family and friends, health issues of self and Nadine Noble Sondergard, church attendance, Nadine Noble Sondergard and bible school, shopping at the Safeway grocery store, cooking, supper menus, division of chores within the household, lunches and social activities, financial status, pets (birds \u0026 cat), other families' weddings, holiday and birthday celebrations with gifts, deaths of friends and family, and local travel. Hilda Caley Noble liked to doodle in the margins.","Diary (13.5 x 19.5 cm), red, 1960, writer was 71/72 Years old, full page daily entries on her activities along with notes on Maybelle Caley Barker's and Nadine Noble Sondergard's activities with little to no recording of how author felt about them; sparse mention of local, national or world events: President Eisenhower coming to Los Angeles, California (27 January), Eisenhower's South American Trip (22 February), and earthquakes. Subjects also include holiday and birthday celebrations with gifts activities; weather observations, daily household operations, correspondence from family and friends, health issues of self (1st \u0026 2nd surgical operations 21 \u0026 29 Sepember ) writes about \"very important election between Mr. Kennedy \u0026 Mr. Nixon for President\" and Maybelle's work with precinct and vote tallies (8 November), mother (Mary Davidson Caley) and Nadine Noble Sondergard (colitis), church attendance, cooking, supper menus, division of chores within the household, lunches and social activities, financial transactions, pets (dog-Moo-Moo), and deaths of friends and family. Diary (13.5 x 19.5 cm), olive green, 1962, writer was 73/74 years old, full page daily entries on her activities along with notes on Maybelle Caley Barker's and Nadine Noble Sondergard's activities with little to no recording of how author felt about them; sparse mention of local, national or world events: (Cuban Missile Crisis (22 October-02 November) grocery stores empty, stocking up on food, war at any time, ships and blockade, dismantling bases in Cuba ). Subjects also include mother's death (Mary Davidson Caley) (23 January), church attendance, cooking, supper menus, division of chores within the household, lunches and social activities, financial transactions, pets (dog Moo-Moo), holiday and birthday celebrations with gifts, and deaths of friends and family.","Scope and Contents Diary (13.5 x 19.5 cm), red, 1963, writer was 74/75 Years old, full page daily entries on her activities along with notes on Maybelle Caley Barkers and Nadine Noble Sondergard activities with little to no recording of how author felt about them; sparse mention of local, national or world events (President Kennedy leaving for Europe (22 June), \"Negroes picketing in Los Angeles\", Pope Paul VI (24 June), Forest fires and Earthquakes, President Kennedy baby death (9-10 August 13), Billy Graham crusade (20 August), President Kennedy assassination and President Johnson new president (22-25 November). Subjects also include church attendance, cooking, supper menus, division of chores within the household, lunches and social activities (playing canasta, Senior Citizen meetings), financial transactions, budgets, health issues of Nadine Noble Sondergard and herself (fall), pets (dog Moo-Moo), holiday and birthday celebrations with gifts, and deaths of friends and family, watching TV on colored set, notes on TV actors death, TV Shows: Ed Sullivan, Lawrence Welk, Hazel, Lassie, Petticoat Junction, and TV being broke is problem (January)(June). Diary (13.5 x 19.5 cm), white,1964, writer was 75/76 years old, full page daily entries on her activities along with notes on Maybelle Caley Barkers and Nadine Noble Sondergard activities with little to no recording of how author felt about them; sparse mention of local, national or world events (Alaska earthquake (27 March), bus strike (June), Mexico City earthquake (6 July), forest fire (24 September). Entires also include church attendance, supper menus, lunches, and social activities. (playing Canasta, senior citizen meetings, Historical Association, Disneyland visit (7 October), 1st mention of Ray Sondergard (7 October), vacation in Long Beach, California (October), Ray and Nadine's courtship, Ray proposed to Nadine (21 November), financial transactions, budgets, health issues of Nadine Noble Sondergard, pets (dog Moo-Moo), holiday and birthday celebrations with gifts, weather observations, and deaths of friends and family. TV shows include Petticoat Junction, Beverly Hillbillies, Hazel, Lawrence Welk, Republican convention with Goldwater (13-17 July), Dick Van Dyke, Lassie, Candid Camera, Election coverage (3 November),\"Johnson won by a landside\".","Scope and Contents Diary (13.5 x 19.5 cm), red, 1965, writer was 76/77 years old, full page daily entries on her activities along with notes on Maybelle Caley Barkers, Nadine Noble Sondergard and Ray Sondergard activities with little recording of how author felt about them except for Ray Sondergard; sparse mention of local, national or world events. Winston Churchill funeral (30 January), earthquake in Seattle (29 April), Ray and Nadine's courtship, on and off engagement, Hilda's dislike of Ray (\"I am afraid he will never amount to anything as he will not work only a short time then gives up\" )(10 June), Ray goes back to first wife (28 July). Ray leaves wife and back in Long Beach and contacts Nadine (6 December), Sierra Madre earthquake (16 July), riot in Los Angeles with \"colored people in Watts\", National Guard sent in, curfew in Los Angeles, riot in Pasadena, CA (12-17 August), blackout in northeastern US and Canada (9 November). Also includes holiday and birthday celebrations with gifts, playing Canasta, pets (dog Moo-Moo), weather observations, and deaths of friends and family and TV shows include Lawrence Welk, Petticoat Junction, Ed Sullivan. Diary (13.5 x 19.5 cm), black, 1966, writer was 77/78 years old, full page daily entries on her activities along with notes on Maybelle Caley Barkers, Nadine Noble Sondergard and Ray Sondergard activities with little recording of how author felt about them. Subjects include Ray and Nadine's courtship ( Ray and Nadine date again (21 January), secretly married in Las Vegas (27 January) but Hilda didn't \"know about it until after Easter\" (11 April), honeymoon trip to Portland, Oregon (15-26 April), Nadine and Ray move to Salem, Ray losing jobs, sparse mention of local, national or world events, holiday and birthday celebrations with gifts, playing Canasta, pets (dog Moo-Moo), health issues (Ray Sondergard, Maybelle Caley Barker), weather observations, and deaths of friends and family and TV shows include Lassie, My Favorite Martian, and Ed Sullivan.","Photographs in family portrait settings of Hilda Caley Noble with Nadine Noble Sondergard and family members.","Correspondence included in the series was recieved by Nadine Noble Sondergard. Correspondence is between her mother, Hilda Caley Noble, her aunt, Maybelle Caley Barker, and friends. Four diaries from the 1950s and 1960s are also in the series.","Diary (13 x 19 cm), spiral bound, brown, 1952, writer was 22 years old. Entries about weather, daily activities, church attendance, social calls (visits) after church, Hilda Caley Nobel and Abba/Aunt Belle (Maybelle Caley Barker), smog, health issues, social activities such as teas, women's club luncheons, vacation to Long Beach, California (October), writes about seeing Richard Nixon and family (31 October).","Scope and Contents Diary (15 x 21 cm), red, 1963 writer was 34/35 years old. Daily entries with breaks of over week after late April: on dating ex-boyfriends: Sam Brown, Frank Camden, Bill, Ward ?, John Snapp (2 months, and Stanley Kelley (2 dates/2 weeks) of which she notes the dates she met and broke up and why, very emotional and intense, relations with mother, holiday and birthday celebrations with gifts, worried about weight, health of mother (Cancer?), she is constantly ill, church attendance and Sunday school teaching, conflict with Mother (attributes it multiple times to cancer returning), dislike of \"Abba\"(Maybelle Caley Barker) (cheap, inconsiderate), multiple day entries on John F. Kennedy's assassination and funeral. Diary (13 x 19.5 cm), green, 1964, writer was 35/36 years old. Almost daily entries include mother's health (76 yrs old), concerns about weight, personal health, flu, weather observations, church attendance, division of chores within the household,and driving test (passed written driving test at 34 yrs old but cancelled driving lessons after a number of lessons because she was too nervous, but started back up). Meets future husband (Ray) in September. No entries for three weeks until they are dating in late October then followed by daily very personal entries on status of courtship for a 35 year old never married, virgin female and a recovering, male alcoholic with an ex-wife and three children.","Diary (14 x 19.5 cm), red, 1966, writer was 37/38 years old: sporadic entries. January 1-24, 1966 are torn out. Ray Sondergard and Nadine Noble Caley went to Las Vegas and got married on 26 January 1966, but did not inform anyone. She continues to live at home, thinks she may be pregnant, still has dates with Ray for drives, and longs for house together. Last entry April 10, 1966.","Letters to Nadine Noble Sondergard from friend Evelyn Bauer reference the loss of Bauer's baby (miscarriage), setting up house, in-law troubles; family updates from relatives."],"separatedmaterial_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eArtifacts were transferred upon receipt to the Manuscripts Artifact Collection (Mss. 1.03): Green leather clutch with metal letters MC (2012.192.01) and pair of nylon white elbow length gloves (2012.192.02ab)\u003c/p\u003e"],"separatedmaterial_heading_ssm":["Separated Materials:"],"separatedmaterial_tesim":["Artifacts were transferred upon receipt to the Manuscripts Artifact Collection (Mss. 1.03): Green leather clutch with metal letters MC (2012.192.01) and pair of nylon white elbow length gloves (2012.192.02ab)"],"userestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eBefore reproducing or quoting from any materials, in whole or in part, permission must be obtained from the Special Collections Research Center, and the holder of the copyright, if not 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